On Tuesday 25 October 2011 22:09:39 Robert Schweikert wrote:
Yes, all of openSUSE is delivered by the community, correct. However, what is on the media has a bit of a "special" status. As discussed there are a number of us that think KDE3 should not be part of 12.1 as such. Rather we should have KDE:KDE3 as a repo in YaST under the "Community Repositories" list. Meaning adding the KDE3 repo is dead simple.
This is already the case (i.e KDE:KDE3 is in the list). But if you want to remove KDE3 from the repository, I would have to make significant changes to it, namely, restore building with HAL, which was removed from KDE3 at expense of loss of functionality just to meet the openSUSE packaging requirements.
If you place it into "community" section in the release notes, this would look like the rest of the distro is not by community, which is wrong.
You could make the same argument for the "Community Repositories" entry in YaST, thus that's a bit out in left field.
If we have a "Community" section in the release notes we can highlight projects such as KDE:KDE3 that are efforts by the community or individuals within the community and that are not part of the release as such. In this section we could also talk about other projects such as the Virtualization:Cloud projects that are not part of 12.1 proper but might be interesting to people looking at openSUSE.
There is nothing bad in having the "community repositories" section in the release notes, which discusses KDE:KDE3 and other community repos. But the original discussion was not about this. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org