Stay with it, Per. The people Novell/MS has now kept to keep openSUSE running have lost the plot :-( : a multitude of repositories for this-and-that and run by this-and-that-person; without any explanation for a user as to which repo. does what and why. Nobody is really in control, and the whole thing is going arse-up.
And if you look at any application name in YaST2 Software Manager you will see that each entry (from all the ones I have looked at) show the entry, "Supportability: unknown".
Now, this is most telling because the YaST2 rpm itself, which I understand is something written by the SuSE people for SuSE/openSUSE, has this description (Supportability: unknown) attached to it!
Ubuntu (using 9.04, x86 version) also has this - some packages are supported by Canonical (*officially*) [1] till the time the particular Ubuntu-version is supported, whereas some packages [2] are not supported, these being third-party compiled & hosted mostly at Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/+tour/index), rarely at another blog/website (such as sourceforge.net). Launchpad may correspond roughly-speaking to the OBS (oS Build Service) except that it hosts packages mainly in .deb format : whereas http://software.opensuse.org/search - the OBS hosts packages for a number of popular Linux distributions in addition to openSUSE. I find a greater proportion of packages to be natively supported in Ubuntu as compared to openSUSE. Jay [1] http://www.imagebam.com/image/aaefd550495213 [2] http://www.imagebam.com/image/cab45f50495216 -- Linux User 483705 | openSUSE 11.1, Ubuntu 9.04 (i686) w/ Windows XP Smolts Profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_b541a450-9bc1-45fd-beab-d46ee43a... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org