Jos Poortvliet wrote:
I'm getting some requests to add more things. Now the stuff above either has been around for a long time, is really VERY cool, is better than what we ship or accidentally didn't make it in. But yes, we could add more. Like a mention of the awesome Games repository. Of course, with disclaimers and all - but it would be perceived as 'part of openSUSE 12.1'. At least as add-on services.
The openSUSE distribution has packaging policies, licence checks, checkin reviews, freezes etc for a reason. Random build service projects, including projects that also incidentally happen to act as staging project for Factory are intentenionally not bound to those rules. Joe Average has no way to find or not the knowledge to judge whether a project is "safe" or not. That's what we have the official openSUSE distribution repos for. I therefore strongly oppose against advertising any repo aside from the offical ones (ie oss, non-oss and update). We must not train users to install arbitrary stuff the Windows way. The distro is our app store. If anything is worth to be used by more than just the few geeks that are capable of building the package themselves anyways get it into the distro! cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org