Suse has for so long offered their packages through a FTP, and now it even offers more packages in the repository than in the CDs/DVD. But the problem is the people couldn't contribute RPM packages as in other distros. Let's say, for example, Mandriva. As long as I have seen, it has a contrib repository where you can become a contributor and commit RPM packages. Now that openSUSE has come, I think it would be cool to create a contrib repository where the people could join and maintain their packages. There would still be an officially supported repository like now, but whoever wanted could ask the repository organizers for permission to take a particular package if nobody is responsible for it or if it doesn't exist, and maintain it. That way the contrib repository could contain packages not included in the main repository, so the people would have a lot more packages available for Suse. That would contribute to create a packagers community and having much more packages might improve the market share of Suse. -- Víctor Fernández Martínez Gabinete de prensa de PoLinux [www.polinux.upv.es]. Usuario de Linux registrado #312284 en http://counter.li.org.