Søndag 10 august 2008 16:01:18 skrev Druid:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> wrote:
on Sonntag, 10. August 2008, Bernhard Walle wrote:
It _is_ a problem. I always end up in having 20 repositories added to my package manager, having lots of updates installed just because I want to have a few programs installed and up to date. And after 9 month of usage, I end up in a reinstallation for $NEXT_RELEASE instead of updating because it's less work for me.
I have currently 14 repos, and always install new versions as update. Yes, sometimes there are some conflicts to solve, but it takes much less time than restoring all config changes etc. I did.
You are all assuming that OSS and the other repos are exactly the same thing. It is not. OSS is the release repo, its frozen, it was tested (was it? I hope so), its a release, should have minimum release quality. Its what people should be using. The other repos are random stuff, non tested, use at your own risk, may break your computer, may eat you.
So yes, there is a big difference between release and stuff in buld service. And no, putting everything together in big repo sounds like a terrible idea.
I dont have 14 repos. I have only the classic oss+packman+updates repos, and a couple of RPMs that came from buildservice or customs, which is what people more or less should stick to, if you ask me. If not, there is no purpose of having a release, we could just be using factory and complaining about brokenness on continuous upgrading, which is what happens in debian anyway...
The repos are separated for a reason.
Just putting everything together in one repo would definitely be a bad idea. But maybe creating some big extra/contrib/community repo that follows the openSUSE release cycle, and is then frozen at release time wouldn't be a bad idea. It shouldn't be a packager playground, and probably shouldn't have packages that are prone to security issues either though. Should be frozen and somewhat tested stuff - the purpose being to provide _more_ packages, not providing latest. Bleeding edge would be available on other smaller dedicated BS repos for experts and adventurous people. Also I think grouping existing BS projects more - and cleaning dublicate and obsolete projects would alleviate many of these complaints about the current BS situation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org