On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 05:35:02AM +0100, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
When Hans asked about "the add-on repo's of the OBS" I wasn't thinking about "backport repos". I was thinking about those packages that aren't in Factory, so probably neither in Tumbleweed. Most from the games repository fall in this category. Another question would be why those packages aren't in Factory... But anyway OK, we were just talking about different things.
Yes, please always remember, one of the requirements for Tumbleweed is that the package already be in Factory.
The whole point is that a lot of people use packages that aren't in factory. packman is a perfect example. So are the games repository, education repository, science repository, various unstable repositories, and many others. There are valid use-cases for using all of these repos. But there is a very good chance that the packages built against, for instance, 11.4 will not work with tumbleweed, and at the very least you can't count on them working. You are basically forcing people who use tumbleweed to use the core packages and nothing else. One of the big advantages of openSUSE is having all of these specialized repositories, but those won't be usable with tumbleweed.
What I'm still worried about is the
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's packageA depends on libA1 and libB1 - Tumbleweed's libB1 depends on libA2 - libA doesn't versions symbols and packageA explodes (libA1 and libA2 are two versions of libA with different sonames but that provide clashing symbols) case. This will only be detected at runtime, and the "detection" would be an user complaining about a hard to debug problem.
We will deal with that when/if it happens, I'm not worried about it at all at the moment.
It is inevitable. Wouldn't it be better to plan for known problems now rather than scrambling for a workaround when the problem arises?
There's going to be funner things for Tumbleweed, like updating the version of perl or python, to deal with :)
Exactly, and that is going to leave a huge number of add-on packages (from outside the main installation) totally unusable. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org