On Mon, 2022-03-28 at 18:56 +0200, Richard Brown wrote:
On Mon, 2022-03-28 at 18:53 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 28.03.22 18:50, Richard Brown wrote:
I agree, but this deficiency of Leap should not be addressed by encoraging people to use untested, unreviewed, unmaintained, unsupported, unsupportable software.
I find this statement disrespectful against everyone who maintains software in inofficial repos. Almost all packages in openSUSE started out in home projects and passed through a devel project before eventually being added to the distro. At the end of the day, the quality difference between official and inofficial packages is not as huge as you imply.
Of course, when you activate someone's home repo, you don't know. The repo owner may be long gone or be a malicious jerk. So no, we shouldn't actively encourage it. But we shouldn't discourage it, either, because we'd be discouraging our distribution as such.
Perhaps some weak "review" process could be established around public, inofficial OBS repositories. For example, a bot could auto-uncheck the "publish" flag for repos that haven't seen any updates for a long time, and users setting the "publish" flag could be asked to provide meaningful descriptions for their repos and the packages therein.
We shouldn't be pushing people to 3rd party repos, Period.
OK, so we should advise them to "configure; make; sudo make install" instead?
No, my advice would be not to use Leap, but that's totally getting off topic.
and use ... what? Factory also needs 3rd party repos. Not as strongly as Leap, but it still does. Not to mention that Factory has other disadvantages that simply don't make it suitable for everyone.
Btw, the discussion is not OT as long as people claim that simply ditching s.o.o was a step in the right direction:
Back to the topic at hand though, if discovering 3rd party software from software.opensuse.org is essential for Leap to be useful, that's a problem that needs to be addressed in Leap, not software.opensuse.org
Looking forward to your suggestions how to do that.
Martin