Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[David Robertson <derobertson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 21:34 -0800, Susemail wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2004 18:42, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * Susemail <susemail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [11-15-04 21:00]:
> > > Any suggestions on apt components to use with 9.1?  Google was little
> > > help.
> >
> > What did you google for?
> >
> > Try 'apt SuSE howto'
> >
> > --
> Hi Patrick,
> I need to know which apt components I shouldn't use.
> Jerome

It depends how brave you are. 
suse-projects, suse-people, kernel-of-the-day, kde-unstable are more
likely to be, well, unstable, but probably work fine in most cases. The
suser- components are individual contributions, usually with each being
concerned with a particular software group, so they may be useful if
looking for particular packages. Packman is useful for multimedia stuff.
Some conflict with each other - gnome and usr-local-bin, for example.

If you prefer to be really safe, stick with base, security, update (the
-prpm ones are patch rpms, so smaller downloads to update
already-installed packages).

David
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