On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 12:07 +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
What exactly makes s.o.o more "official" than opi? Both come from the same github project - openSUSE. At least, opi seems to actually work and supports more than just OBS (e.g. Packman).
That's fine if you know about opi. If you don't, you would probably search the web and sooner or later find software.opensuse.org, which has an official look and is hosted on the same domain as the opensuse.org home page and the wiki. Also, users coming e.g. from Ubuntu would rightfully expect something like packages.unbuntu.com to exist for openSUSE, and s.o.o comes closest to that. opi, OTOH, is a rather hidden gem, no matter how popular it is on the forum and on the mailing list. AFAICS, no existing pattern pulls it in. Users must explicitly select it for installation, and it's unlikely that users who aren't already familiar with the openSUSE project will find it by its name :-)
On forums established opinion is - do not use s.o.o, use YaST/zypper or opi.
Yes, and that's because of the known issues that s.o.o has. In the past, s.o.o was very useful. IIUC, the problems started with "closing the leap gap" and the resulting complex repo setup that s.o.o can't handle. My personal opion is that it's more important to fix these issues than pushing forward new tools. And yes, I believe that at this time in the 21st century, a serious Linux distro needs a good Web-based tool for searching software packages. Thanks Martin