Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 2010-06-24 20:45, Jim Henderson wrote:
> > > > > openSUSE:Contrib is there already. Then again, if you have enough
> > > > > guts you could just as well send it to openSUSE:Factory outright.
> > > >
> > > > yes, with Factory that open as it is now, Factory is the right way.
> > >
> > > I had thought Factory was for "future development" - ie, the basis for
> > > the builds that go into the "next release".  Am I misunderstanding that?
> >
> > Is there a problem with that?
>
> Not a problem so much, but rather if someone's running on the "current" 
> release, having to go to the "experimental" area for a piece of software 
> that isn't in the standard repo seems like overkill.

Well if you took all the "updated" software, and agglomerated them
into a new repository, you _would_ have something equivalent to
factory.

What you _can_ do is add the repo for brltty/openSUSE_11.2, and just
live with it until the next release has a brltty recent enough for
you.
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