Joe Shaw wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 01:45 -0800, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
Also, I find folders for "Archiving:" and "editors" and "Banshee" and so on -- am I supposed to go through each and add them individually as a repo, or is there a single repo or something which sort of includes all these? Why are they classified like these into categories, in the first place? Do I need to add them, or are these just the software that was already installed on my system?
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There isn't (at present, anyway) an Ubuntuesque concept of a "universe" repository, which is more or less a dumping ground for whatever packages people want. Although the multiple repositories might be a little harder to use(*), it does mean that you get only the software you're interested in, and is less likely to break your system.
(*) IMO, it's only harder to use right now because it lacks a search interface. Once it has one of those, that lets you search by project name, package name, and inside package descriptions, it'll be a whole lot easier to find specific pieces of software.
I agree, it is technically superior to the big dumping ground.
Nevertheless, it is a lot less user-friendly, especially for less
experienced users.
One might argue that less experienced users shouldn't touch anything
that's not on the distribution with a stick but reality is different
(and e.g. quickly having the latest KDE packages _does_ provide a
competitive advantage to SUSE Linux IMO).
Searching is one thing, but adding repositories should be made easier
too. A more-or-less one-click-installation for YaST2 would be very
helpful (we already have the .repo files).
Add a MIME type, hook a YaST2 frontend to it in Firefox and Konqueror.
Including .repo links in search results.
my 0.02€
cheers
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