On Sat, 2015-12-12 at 13:50 +0100, Richard Brown wrote:
On 12 December 2015 at 12:40, jdd
wrote: Le 12/12/2015 12:08, Richard Brown a écrit :
- Evergreen 13.1 only has a planned support period of January 2016 to November 2016.
(I agree with the rest of your mail)
may be our work could be to make shift to Leap easier. I mean better doc, may be upgrade scripts (Wagon??).
Wagon was never supported for openSUSE and is no longer supported for SLE. It is also irrelevant as this discussion includes additional repositories, and wagon used to remove all repositories that weren't part of the main distribution :)
the problem is not upgrade but problems coming during upgrades, so if we can make this a bare minimum, we can go on.
for example, could we could collect the "zypper lr" of interested people, eventually build a common VirtualBox test appliance...
and write accurate doc of how to go from one to the other?
Adding repositories to your machine makes it in many respects 'unsupported' and 'unsupportable' - it adds complexity, that complexity makes it very hard to write accurate, meaningful documentation, because you can very easily add stuff to your system that would invalidate what is intended by the distribution
The issue is that there is useful software that is only available in repositories, and if I didn't have those I would probably be forced to switch back to Debian, and I'm not the only one. -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.