Edward Diener wrote:
I don't know what was in the Repair System, but I understand that one of the items was to re-initialize the boot partition with 'grub'. I am also guessing there were other small items which were automated to make the end-users manual tasks easier to accomplish. It is hard to believe that all the individual tasks were broken.
They probably weren't.
It sounds like the decision to discontinue support for such a useful feature
It wasn't (in my understanding) "a decision to discontinue support". It was a case of "it's broken and nobody's fixing it". The openSUSE project is increasingly taking responsibility for itself, these are some of the changes we're seeing.
did not take into account the fact that smaller tasks which were not broken are very useful to end-users, and therefore what still did work properly could have been kept while more ambitious things which did not work and were buggy could have been dropped for lack of time to fix them.
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