On 24/11/15 04:24, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
On Monday 23 November 2015 17.42:43 Basil Chupin wrote:
and when you go and try and ADD repositories the only COMMUNITY repositories available are:
* Main Repository (Sources)
* Main Repository (DEBUG)
On the other hand, openSUSE 13.2 (and earlier) have a host of Community repositories available such as Packman, libdvdcss, Games, et al -- but Tumbleweed has zilch (aka zero, nil, nothing).
I make much use of VLC (from videolan.org) to watch digital television on my computer (my wife can watch whatever SHE likes on the big screen in the lounge ) as well as watch DVD films. I also like to play some games included in Pysol. But neither vlc nor Pysol are available in Tumbleweed.
The question therefore is: why is Tumbleweed so bereft of Community repositories when they are, and have been for years, available in versions of openSUSE?
Well this is quite simple to explain in a complex world.
Of course :-) .
What you see in yast2 for Community repository is a call to a completely external website which return a bunch of xml to yast proposing repositories.
Why so complex : don't ask,. it's question of patents trolls and mushroom :-)
Ah, the 'magic mushroom'! Say no more -- I get the picture! :-) 'Trolls', eh? But any Orcs or Elves or Hobbits or Dwarves involved? :-) .
All the work is done by 2 of us, yes only that :-) Leap was the big priority for november
Understood. You are implying that you were instructed that November was a big priority [ie, Leap of Faith] (but instructed by whom? Does this mean that some hierarchy is actaully controlling what happens in a openSUSE distro?). But one must ask what about, going backwards: October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February, January, December, November, October, September, August,........?
So yes, a good question about the why. - Laziness come first :-) - Lack of time (this one is hard to fight)
What we can do, I've asked Martin who normally maintain the content if we can do that, and perhaps also change our ability to got easier contribution.
I've just write down a reminder, so expect some news on that point. But trust me, it will not happen before Christmas ;-)
Thanks Bruno for your response, which I see comes from a person with a lot of sense of humour and which I understand and appreciate :-) . But this leaves me with having to ask: which Christmas are you talking about -- Christmas 2015 or 2016 or 2017 or.....? :-D . BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.3.0-17 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org