On Thursday 2015-08-06 22:34, Catalin wrote:
http://i.imgur.com/3OPbRnk.png?1 The most important part was Nr.1 because I didn't find in the main official repositories some of the software I am using (like Eclipse and Code::Blocks)
Even though handling many repositories gets unwieldly, adding them is not a total showstopper either IMO. Their absence from the main repository means that no one has found it important enough yet to copy it from its development project to Main. Perhaps that is a task you would like to take? After all, applications live and die with their users.
and some where missing even from OBS (like teamviewer
Which has to do with licensing of proprietary software, and mode of distribution thereof. There is a difference between redistribution, and running a script on the user's behalf (much like fetchmsttfonts).
and truecrypt).
With the questionable security - and licensing - the interest in having this package plummeted. Given cryptsetup can handle tcrypt volumes (so its manpage suggests), that does not seem to be a loss.
7. Packages are split into many small parts
Which has a technical background https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Shared_library_packaging_policy Debian does the same. But why care - it's not like users really have to bother with the number of installable subentities.
14. additional unofficial repository (AUR/OBS), some smaller some larger
Yeah the numbers are on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions but those kind of numerical comparisons are not useful, usually because the extra umpteenth thousand packages are niche software irrespective of distribution.
16. probably
Probably not. (See below)
17. completely independent community / partially supported by SUSE
So that's a win for openSUSE then, because they have not only the community, but also SUSE.
So what is your opinion about this and the points I made in my comparison?
No news there. Every user's tally should have less of "probably $so" and more of "tried $that and found it to be $so". Bonus points if based on hard facts, e.g. bad: "tried apt-get and found it to be so-so" good: "due to lack of a SAT solver, apt does not offer different ways of package conflict resolution" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org