On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 11:54 AM Martin Wilck via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 12:11 +1030, Simon Lees wrote:
Really there should be nothing installable from software.o.o that can't be included in the distro directly which provides a far better user experience and if we don't have stuff in the distro maybe the better answer for new users is to Install a flatpak or a simple sorry we don't have that available currently rather then pointing them toward a service with a high potential to break there system if they don't have a really good understanding of what they are doing.
I agree with everything you say about software.o.o being confusing and hard to use correctly. I also agree that the current issues with s.o.o should be fixed before basing a new launcher on it.
Yet it's the most obvious way to search for packages that aren't directly available from standard repos. E.g. leap users can see whether a certain package they are missing is available for tumbleweed. Or they can search in devel and home repos for missing packages and/or newer versions. This is much easier than trying to search OBS, and more obvious for novice users than using an inofficial tool like opi.
What exactly makes s.o.o more "official" than opi? Both come from the same github project - openSUSE. At least, opi seems to actually work and supports more than just OBS (e.g. Packman). On forums established opinion is - do not use s.o.o, use YaST/zypper or opi.