July 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305144] [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> Feature #305144, revision 1, last change by Title: [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi All ! I Have very good new idea: converting Yast into a Linux learning tool. This is very simple to achieve: Yast must show the commands it executes and files it modifies, in a nice GUI dialog. It will allow all kinds of Linux users understand how things really work. Enable learn new things or remind how old-but-forgotten things work for seasoned people. Great, isn't it ? P.S. Jay Vollmer recommends, that among the commands that Yast shows as it executing, it should also recommend "man pages" for the relevant underlying commands. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. Discussion: #1: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> (2008-07-29 12:09:11) Rajko M. wrote: If one wants to see what is gong on in background, than look at logs in realtime. There is console (Konsole) and command tail. Run as root: tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log and then start YaST and play with. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. #2: Jerry Houston <jerry.houston(a)comcast.net> (2008-07-29 15:41:34) Sounds like a great way for new users to learn more about what's under the hood. Or, what's under the bonnet, for the Brits. #3: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis(a)novell.com> (2008-07-31 07:11:21) Moving to maintainers to decide. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305144

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[openFATE 306972] produce proper diffs for status update mails
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Feature added by: Karsten König (remur) Feature #306972, revision 1 Title: produce proper diffs for status update mails openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Karsten König (remur) Description: Beeing interested in a very active feature request like https://features.opensuse.org/306967 results in a lot of mails, all which contain the full feature request with all the comments, it'd be nice if one could switch to a more bugzilla like behaviour so you only see what's changed, or in case it is an awnser maybe quote the previous message as well, but finding 4 lines tagged with + in a thread where people feel +1 beeing a proper comment is somewhat awkward. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306972

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[openFATE 305931] Temporary Build Support (aka mbuild)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #305931, revision 1, last change by Title: Temporary Build Support (aka mbuild) Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: A temporary build support is wanted to obsolete what we currently have internal as mbuild. A temporary Build should fullfill the following requirements: * Upload of local sources without the need to create a project or package namespace manually. * Build as part of an existing project, without the need to have write access there and without to modify it. * Build results should be stored and downloadable for X time. Afterwards they need to get removed automatically. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305931

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[openFate 305737] remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #305737, revision 1, last change by Title: remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There are requests to remove the warning about a missing swap device from the expert partitioner for systems with only SSDs. I want to go one step further and remove the warning altogether since RAM has increased so much in the past. Relations: - proposal for SSD (novell/bugzilla/id: 467874) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467874 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305737

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[openFATE 305929] Startup in X even when the xorg.conf fails
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Joop Boonen (worldcitizen) Feature #305929, revision 1, last change by Title: Startup in X even when the xorg.conf fails openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Joop Boonen (worldcitizen) Description: As there are more and more new users within openSuSE with less knowledge. I was thinking it's an option to boot in Vesa when the original xorg.conf fails. Than the user is still able to fix the problem via a GUI i.e. YaST and SAX. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305929

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[openFATE 306757] big all in one live dvd/usb img (like knoppix dvd)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Bruno Gerz (bogz) Feature #306757, revision 1 Title: big all in one live dvd/usb img (like knoppix dvd) Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bruno Gerz (bogz) Description: It would be great to get live dvd images(factory tree). CDs are out, I think ;-) So you would get more feedback for packages, which are not tested by standard gnome- or kde-only live cd testers - and may be, computer magazines are interested too. It`s not so simple to build and solve all dependencies via kiwi for people, not bound in suse or novell, because anything was changed every week ;-) If not possible because of storage size, so may be you can provide periodically a big kiwi konfiguration file(or only for a released openSUSE) with solved dependencies. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306757

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[openFATE 306934] geekofeel: web mashup
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Feature #306934, revision 1 Title: geekofeel: web mashup Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Description: Website displaying(live) news, tweets, diggs, blogs etc with #opensuse, #geeko -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306934

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[openFATE 306916] Gamestore
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Feature #306916, revision 1 Title: Gamestore Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Description: Finish Gamestore and make it production ready. More info here: http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/07/gamestore/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306916

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[openFate 305640] Replace gnomesu by something more modern
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Feature added by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Feature #305640, revision 1, last change by Title: Replace gnomesu by something more modern openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: gnomesu is kind of obsolete and unmaintained. In the world of PolicyKit, we could use the new PolicyKit-aware gksu, or the adminkit stuff done by Rodrigo. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305640

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[openFate 305688] system wide spellchecker (hunspell)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

Feature added by: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) Feature #305688, revision 1, last change by Title: system wide spellchecker (hunspell) openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Why Hunspell? MySpell is not developed for quite a long time either in Mozilla and in OpenOffice.org. Hunspell is a fork of MySpell, it has great improvements is several ways, and fully backward compatible with MySpell. Main features: * Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology. * Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronounciation data. * Morphological analysis, stemming and generation. * Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries. * GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ Fedora project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary Ubuntu project: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConsolidateSpellingLibs I also find a reference in the wishlist: http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Various Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354554 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305688

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[openFATE 306391] Add migration assistant to the installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Michal Smrž (ilfirin) Feature #306391, revision 1, last change by Title: Add migration assistant to the installation openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Smrž (ilfirin) Description: Ubuntu have great Migration assistan. With it you can migrate your data and some configuration from other Linux distributions and from Windows. Michael Larabel article (http://www.michaellarabel.com/?k=blog&i=83) Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigrationAssistance) source (http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/migration-assistant/migrati…) It would be great, if openSUSE (Yast) has similar feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306391

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[openFATE 306737] improve displaying of the release notes
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) Feature #306737, revision 1 Title: improve displaying of the release notes Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) Description: I think we'd need additonal navigation links. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306737

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[openFATE 306732] review existing opensuse enhancement requests
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #306732, revision 1 Title: review existing opensuse enhancement requests Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Description: go through the list of enhancement bugzilla items and fate request against opensuse.org / buildservice / package wishlist, grab some, and implement them. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306732

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[openFATE 306989] More Help to new Users
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Ney walens de Mesquita (nwm) Feature #306989, revision 1 Title: More Help to new Users openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ney walens de Mesquita (nwm) Description: OK, opensuse is very simple to use, i agree, but many users just don't understand how a linux system works... what's a package??... why i have to use a Package Manager??!! Where is my network configuration?? why this is so diferent from windows or Mac?? Ubuntu today is the larger linux distribution because some reasons... follow a list of some important features that we can learn from: 1 - Too many community support (ok, openSUSE has this one) 2 - LTS release cicle (this is for SLED and SLES, i know) 3 - Too many manuals, documentation and Help (openSUSE has this one too) 4 - Costumized version of yelp with manuals to commom tasks, like use tha package manager and install codecs (i think that is the point) I sugest that openSUSE can do some advances on item 4 and this can help new users to understand how openSUSE works. I think that yast can be more explained by module on yelp, but in a easy way for end users and not thecnical way. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306989

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[openFate 305548] YaST-Qt: More informative "Installation Summary"
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Feature #305548, revision 1, last change by Title: YaST-Qt: More informative "Installation Summary" openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The YaST Qt package manager should provide as much information in the "Installation Summary" view as zypper, esp the overall download size to expect and how much disk space will be freed/used after performing the operation. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305548

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[openFATE 306619] open firmware for some broadcom wifi cards
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Mariusz Fik (Fisiu) Feature #306619, revision 1 Title: open firmware for some broadcom wifi cards openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mariusz Fik (fisiu) Description: It could be fine to ship openSUSE 11.2 with open firmware for broadcom wifi cards. Then, some cards will work out-of-box. For this chips currently unsupported we still have "install_bcm43xx_firmware". Known supported boards until now: 4306, 4311(rev1), 4318 and 4320 http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ (http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306619

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[openFATE 306282] Restricted Guest Account
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #306282, revision 1, last change by Title: Restricted Guest Account openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Description: openSUSE should support a "Guest" account with a temporary home directory and restricted permissions (via AppArmor, like not being able to start application with console privileges, look into home directories as "other" user etc.). An authenticated user has to enable/start this user account. This could be either implemented with a by default existing but inactivated user account (like Windows) or temporary created user account via login manager/session switch applet (like Ubuntu, https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/gdm-guest-login). Use Case: Allow to lend your laptop to someone else for quick email check, surfing or playing music at a party. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306282

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[openFATE 306762] Implemens tool like apt-listbugs of Debian
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Feature added by: Vicenç Juan Tomàs Monserrat (vtomasr5) Feature #306762, revision 1 Title: Implemens tool like apt-listbugs of Debian openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vicenç Juan Tomàs Monserrat (vtomasr5) Description: For system administrators to know the open bugs in the packages is very important to know whether to install or not. Would be a good feature! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306762

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[openFATE 306978] Comment Delete Button
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #306978, revision 1 Title: Comment Delete Button openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: Project/Product managers and Screening Team Members should have the possibility to delete comments to remove spam and improve readability of features. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306978

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[openFATE 306583] "My Votes" list
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Feature added by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #306583, revision 1 Title: "My Votes" list openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Description: It would be nice to have, analogous to Bugzilla, besides the "My Features" link a "My Votes" list (at best showing directly how one has voted on each features too). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306583

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[openFate 305305] 1-click uninstall
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com> Feature #305305, revision 1, last change by Title: 1-click uninstall openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An easy way to remove Software! For example: you installed an application with "1-click install" (which will install all the packages that you need), there should be an easy way (also with 1 click) to remove what you have installed with that 1-click operation... in another words: an "1-click Uninstall" to remove installed software (dependencies and packages included). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305305

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[openFATE 306900] Mobile openSUSE portal
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Andrew Wafaa (FunkyPenguin) Feature #306900, revision 1 Title: Mobile openSUSE portal Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andrew Wafaa (funkypenguin) Description: I aim to complete my previously started openSUSE on Symbian (http://www.wafaa.eu/index.php?/archives/196-openSUSE-on-Symbian.html) portal to work fully with all services, including Bugzilla and Hermes. I will require help with this, particularily with JavaScript. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306900

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[openFATE 306439] Include Eucalyptus in 11.2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Andrew Wafaa (FunkyPenguin) Feature #306439, revision 1, last change by Title: Include Eucalyptus in 11.2 openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andrew Wafaa (funkypenguin) Description: Please could we include Eucalyptus in the next release? For thos unaware of Eucalyptus please see their homepage (http://www.eucalyptus.com/) , and for those that are too lazy to do that - Eucalyptus is an Open Source alternative to Amazon's EC2 Cloud computing offering. This is the very product that Ubuntu are using for their " Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/cloud/UEC) ". I am not advocating a "jump on the bandwagon" or "keeping up with the jones'" attitude. I am however advocating empowering our distribution and community with the necessary tools to stay ahead of the pack. I can also see several instances where the openSUSE project could potentially benifit from implementing our own cloud - it's no secret that there are some infrastructure constraints, and going down the Utility/Grid/Cloud/$Current_Buzz_Word computing may help things. For those that question whether there is a demand for it, I will admit there may not be a huge demand at the moment. The key thing is if we can market it right (in co-operation with Eucalyptus) we can get a much bigger uptake on both products - even our darling SLE cousin can join in the fun ;-) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306439

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[openFATE 306899] Porting OSC to Symbian platform
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Andrew Wafaa (FunkyPenguin) Feature #306899, revision 1 Title: Porting OSC to Symbian platform Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andrew Wafaa (funkypenguin) Description: My intention is to try and port the great Build Service's OSC tool to the Symbian platform. This will enable users to keep on top of Build Service tasks even whilst on the move. I will use PyS60 to create the installable package and use the latest code available in SVN. The only aspect that I forsee users not being able to do is to actually do a local build, but all other functions should work without issue. Use Case: I'm sat in a cafe enjoying the scenary with a croissant and cup of coffee and I receive an e-mail from Hermes advising of a submit request on a project that I'm the maintainer of. I can then accept/decline the request there and then, rather than having to ssh into my machine at home and do it. It will also be possible to create new packages etc directly from my device. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306899

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[openFATE 306614] Todoodle
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Feature #306614, revision 1 Title: Todoodle Requested by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Description: This is my award winning notes taking application, which I use formy private needs, but which hasn't seen much development over the last time. Itwould be nice to give it some more polish and do a proper release for thepublic. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306614

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[openFATE 306470] Support Novell GroupWise in KDE as Akonadi resource
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Feature #306470, revision 1, last change by Title: Support Novell GroupWise in KDE as Akonadi resource openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Description: bug #277049 and numerous other, stability, problems can be solved by migrating the KDE 3 groupwise resource to Akonadi. The migration was begun already in January. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306470

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[openFATE 306613] Krest
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Feature #306613, revision 1 Title: Krest Requested by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Description: I have worked on some infrastructure for creating C++ bindings for RESTservices in the context of the Kode project. kxml_compiler already supportscreating data model classes from XML examples. The missing piece is a tool toguide creation of these classes and associated transport bindings according tothe needs of the developer. The goal would be to implement a guided bindingcreation by example in contrast to the usual approach of taking a full formalspec of transport and format. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306613

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[openFATE 306611] Plutimikation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Feature #306611, revision 1 Title: Plutimikation Requested by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Description: My math learning application for children could need some love.It works, but it could have some more motivational features. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306611

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[openFATE 306608] Grand Unified Social Network
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Feature #306608, revision 1 Title: Grand Unified Social Network Requested by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Description: Many sites let you manage your social networkins ome way, Facebook, Xing, Linkedin, OpenDesktop. Even Twitter and sites like Gitorious provide some of these functionality. It would be great to put all thisinfo together on the desktop and integrate it in some unified scheme, which merges and connects all your different social networks you have build on theweb. This certainly would be a UI challenge, but it has quite some potential. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306608

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[openFATE 306607] Xing client lib
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Feature #306607, revision 1 Title: Xing client lib Requested by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Description: Xing is said to have some API to access the data about yoursocial network. It would be great to have a client lib, which allows to get holdof this data for further usage on the desktop, e.g. putting it in youraddressbook, or connecting it to the data of other social networks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306607

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[openFATE 306599] Web App for Cert Bulletins
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Kurt Garloff (garloff) Feature #306599, revision 1 Title: Web App for Cert Bulletins Requested by: Kurt Garloff (garloff) Description: Build a prototype for handling the certification database and bulletins using a modern Web Application framework. Current choice would be django as it's rather powerful and uses a language I'm very much in favor of. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306599

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[openFate 305664] Server CD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Martin Schlander (cb400f) Feature #305664, revision 1, last change by Title: Server CD openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Martin Schlander (cb400f) Description: Providing an official openSUSE server cd - with some often used server software - and perhaps a lightweight window manager like icewm or similar - would be a great thing for a number of reasons. - openSUSE is generally considered a desktop centric distribution, providing a server cd would do a heck of a lot to highligt the excellent (home-)server qualities of openSUSE. - The few people that realize that the openSUSE DVD/netinstall actually offers text mode/server installation, are often discouraged by needing to download a full DVD, or do troublesome and slow http/ftp installation. - Server users are generally more technical people, it would be beneficial to attract more of these to the openSUSE project. - More people using openSUSE on home servers would likely have spill-over effects on SLES sales. - An openSUSE server cd, would be an excellent response to Ubuntu server edition and Microsoft Home Server. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305664

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[openFate 305582] Off-Line one click install (MSI for Linux)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar(a)novell.com> Feature #305582, revision 1, last change by Title: Off-Line one click install (MSI for Linux) openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Idea from community member Raul Romero. Same concept as MSI packages for Windows but exploiting the One Click Install concept of openSUSE (and therefore inheriting the simplicity, code and security. Basically a compressed file which includes a repository inside, plus one click install information, and a script to trigger the oneclickinstall handler with the data as payload in the script. Therefore is a collection of rpms that can be installed detailed description is here http://en.opensuse.org/OSI There is already a prototype working. Example script: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/363315/MozillaFirefox.osi This requires some extra features in one click install and other pieces * ability to force OneClick to add the repo (the one inside the compressed file) Additionally I see other features: * ability to suggest an update repo for the installed bundle * support from build service to generate bundles * easy way to generate them locally Out of scope but interesting: * Ablity to trigger a YaST workflow (its own control.xml?) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This solves the business case of distributing service packs, applications, codecs bundles by just downloading a big file, 100% offline, supporting dependencies and repo signatures. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305582

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[openFATE 306907] Add support for Ksplice
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '17

25 May '17

Feature added by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Feature #306907, revision 1 Title: Add support for Ksplice openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Description: KSplice allows it currently to apply most but not all kernel updates without the need to reboot which is especially great for servers. It's backed by a newly founded corporation that continually tries to improve it so hopefully sometime in the future a reboot wont be necessary for any kernel update. Fedora as well as Ubuntu already support it so openSUSE shouldn't stay behind. URL: http://www.ksplice.com/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306907

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[openFATE 306528] Info banner for projects/packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

Feature added by: Jan-Simon Möller (dl9pf) Feature #306528, revision 1 Title: Info banner for projects/packages Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jan-Simon Möller (dl9pf) Description: I'd propose to add an info banner (as on the monitor page - aka "Adrians Blog" ;) ) to the projects or even packages. This would allow the new groups of packagers to leave status messages right in place for the projects. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306528

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[openFATE 306412] Easy and unified way to enable/disable optional/experimental features
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Dec '16

03 Dec '16

Feature added by: Tejun Heo (teheo) Feature #306412, revision 1, last change by Title: Easy and unified way to enable/disable optional/experimental features openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Tejun Heo (teheo) Description: When new things are introduced, it always generates certain amount of controversy. It's sometimes due to the quality of the initial implementation; other times, the feature itself isn't appealing to large subset of the userbase. Examples of this type of features include compiz, beagle and pulseaudio. Given that features which generate a lot of controversies are desktop related as they are the most visible and that as a distro openSUSE wants to ship and experiment with new features, having an easy and unified way to opt in and out of controversial features would resolve a lot of griefs without harming test coverage too much. I suggest installing new features by default and ask whether the user wants to opt in and out of those features from ggreeter. It wouldn't add another step while still providing choices upfront. Also, the same selection should be available through control pannel. This feature would be superset of fate#305296. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306412

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[openFate 305556] rpm -q --whatrecommends foobar
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Feature added by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Feature #305556, revision 1, last change by Title: rpm -q --whatrecommends foobar openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: For debugging purporses why a package is installed it would be nice to have a "--whatrecommends" query option for rpm and not only "--whatrequires". -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305556

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[openFATE 306848] Provide firmware package ( non-oss )
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Feature added by: Denny Beyer (lumnis) Feature #306848, revision 1 Title: Provide firmware package ( non-oss ) openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Denny Beyer (lumnis) Description: We should provide a firmware package for all drivers requiring one, eg. many tv cards or scanners etc. Even better would be if this package would be automatically installed (or the user will be prompted to install) if a device has been plugged in for the first time. Firmware files are relatively small compared to harddisk size, so one package for all tv cards, one for scanners etc. should do. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306848

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[openFATE 306917] Improvements to restricted-multimedia codecs installer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Feature #306917, revision 1 Title: Improvements to restricted-multimedia codecs installer openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Description: At the moment the execution of opensuse-codecs-installer leads to a rather unnerving chain of events for beginners starting with the webpage. http://software.opensuse.org/codecs?client_version=10.3.1&lang=en_GB.UTF-8&… 11.1 (x86_64)&kernel=2.6.27.23-0.1-default&gstreamer=gstreamer-utils-0.10.21-3.13& The request is to either have a different implementation of codec-installer itself (for example, clicking the search for codecs button on the codec installer automatically starts a one-click-installer for installing required multimedia packages), or improve the codec-installer website to make things easy (reduce number of clicks required to just 1 or 2) and trivial (ie. no decision-making about fluendo/community, etc). Use Case: New user (openSUSE virgin ;) , i.e., any MAN or WOMAN who hasn't used openSUSE yet, possibly only has used windows till now) tries to play an mp3 file. Then the following sequence starts: 1) Codecs-installer pops up. 2) User clicks on install codecs (preferably call it restricted-multimedia support). 3) Browser opens, shows up website with version of opensuse and desktop environment detected. 4) User clicks to start one-click installer. 5) Installatin completes, user retries playing mp3 file, it works, user happy. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306917

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[openFATE 306896] Zypp-proxy - A proxy cache server for zypper updates
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Oct '16

15 Oct '16

Feature added by: Alex Tsariounov (tsariounov) Feature #306896, revision 1 Title: Zypp-proxy - A proxy cache server for zypper updates Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alex Tsariounov (tsariounov) Description: This project will create zypp-proxy which is a server proxy used for caching update packages that are used by machines on the local network on a locally designated host machine that acts as a proxy to the openSUSE updates repositories. The project is similar in function and requirements to the Debian project apt-proxy, details of which can be found here: http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/ This project is useful for those who run many local (both physical and virtual) openSUSE machines and like to keep them up to date with updates; however, they do not wish to waste bandwidth for downloading the same updates over and over to all local machines whether when keeping exisiting machines up to date, or building new machines and having to re-download all updates yet again. For some people, simply mirroring the entire openSUSE updates repository is sufficient to provide local network updates; however, for most, since they do not use near as many packages as that repository provides, doing this simply wastes disk space. These people will find zypp-proxy most useful. Both server and client setup will be quite simple. The server will use the public openSUSE updates repositories to check for updates. The clients will point to the local server (the proxy) machine for updates rather than the public servers. When a client requests an update, the zypp-proxy server first checks if the public server has a more up to date package that what it has cached locally. If the public server doesn't, then zypp-proxy serves the locally cached package. If the public server does have a more up to date package, then zypp-proxy first downloads it to its local cache and then serves it to the client. How many old versions of packages to keep will be a configurable. The first implementation will support openSUSE 11.1 only, with support for other openSUSE releases following suit. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306896

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[openFATE 306234] allow to resize unformatted partitions and logical volume
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #306234, revision 1, last change by Title: allow to resize unformatted partitions and logical volume openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Description: Allow to resize unformatted partitions and logical volume with YaST. Relations: - Unable to resize unformatted logical volume (novell/bugzilla/id: 479561) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479561 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306234

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[openFATE 305838] Integrate ReviewBoard in Buildservice
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

Feature added by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) Feature #305838, revision 1, last change by Title: Integrate ReviewBoard in Buildservice Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) Description: ReviewBoard is a code change review system. It should be considered to integrate it to the openSUSE Buildservice infrastructure to ease collaboration. It might be an option that submit requests to packages can be handled in the review board. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305838

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[openFATE 305914] PAC support for 'system wide proxy configuration'
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Feature added by: Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) Feature #305914, revision 1, last change by Title: PAC support for 'system wide proxy configuration' openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) Description: The distribution now contains libproxy and we should try to make as much use of it as possible. A big advantage is the ability to parse PAC (Proxy AutoConfiguration) without the need for this in every application. Simply linking against libproxy with it's very simple API (3 API calls, 2 without parameters) is enugh to have the advantage of no longer needing to 'guess' what proxy to use. What is now: - You can set in yast / proxy a general proxy to be used (http://foo.proxy.com:1234) This is bascially put into http_proxy envvar. In gnome you can set user proxy configuration as: - Use System Proxy (as configured in yast) - Use proxy configuration (static, same options as in yast) - Use automatic proxy configuration script Yast lacks the option to specify a PAC script on system wide level. This is only possible in the user sessions configuration. This made sense as most applications don't know how to handle pac files anyway. But with libroxy, this hurdle can be taken away from every single application and can thus be offered. I'm glad to elaborate on questions; I'm sure there are some :-) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305914

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[openFATE 306370] Support request creating and accepting from remote packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jul '15

28 Jul '15

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #306370, revision 1, last change by Title: Support request creating and accepting from remote packages Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: Submit requests should be supported when using a remote project/package as source. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306370

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[openFate 305356] 802.1x authentication on wired network using YaST via wpa_supplicant
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Feature added by: Marius Tomaschewski <mt(a)novell.com> Feature #305356, revision 1, last change by Title: 802.1x authentication on wired network using YaST via wpa_supplicant openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Marius Tomaschewski <mt(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Some networks using 802.1x authentication on metallic Ethernet and I think it would be cool have a possibility, handle this connection type using YaST. The major problem to support this is that the wpa_supplicant is in /usr/sbin; it seems also to be difficult to move it to /sbin because of all the libs the wpa_supplicant is using. What would be required, is to extent the "supported_on_localfs" function to check this and start the interface in remotefs flow when 802.1x is enabled. That is, using remotefs on 802.1x authenticated interfaces would be not possible -- same as with NetworkManager. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305356

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[openFATE 306752] Login by fingerprint
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Feature added by: Frank Helbo (fhc) Feature #306752, revision 1 Title: Login by fingerprint openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Frank Helbo (fhc) Description: Many laptops today comes with fingerprint readers. I even got it working in openSuSE 11.0, but it was a bit complicated. Why not enable this feature by default and have et integrated in the About me dialog, soo you can scan you finger just like changing password? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306752

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[openFATE 305913] support package installation by supplements in YCP
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #305913, revision 1, last change by Title: support package installation by supplements in YCP openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Description: Allow installation of package by supplements in YCP. Currently yast2-storage has a list of packages required for certain filesystems. This list could be removed since filesystem packages include a supplements . Relations: - mail on yast-devel (url: http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2009-02/msg00033.html) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305913

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[openFate 305099] please have yast do a fsck before attempting to mount existing filesystems
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> Feature #305099, revision 1, last change by Title: please have yast do a fsck before attempting to mount existing filesystems openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Per Jessen <per.jessen(a)enidan.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I was doing a new install, but wanted to keep my /home filesystem (JFS). No problem, except that the filesystem wasn't clean and needed an fsck. As far as I can tell, yast didn't do this, so mounting of the /home filesystem failed, which caused the entirely installation process to abend and start over. Discussion: #1: Stefan Hundhammer <sh(a)novell.com> (2008-02-21 06:26:43) I'd really hate to have my 100+ GB ext3 partitions fscked. That takes forever. #2: Per Jessen <per.jessen(a)enidan.com> (2008-02-21 07:15:33) Even when they're clean? It's done on every bootup anyway. See /etc/init.d/boot.localfs #3: Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik(a)novell.com> (2008-02-21 08:21:41) What is your opinion Thomas? #4: Thomas Fehr <fehr(a)novell.com> (2008-02-21 08:24:13) That would need an feature request, not a bug report. #6: Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)novell.com> (2008-02-21 12:04:27) I think it's not too uncommon that people reinstall their system _because_ the old one had a problem, so dirty file systems may not be too uncommon. #7: Thomas Fehr <fehr(a)novell.com> (2008-02-25 03:00:03) What the customer described happens on JFS, this is an unsupported filesystem exactly for the reason that it behaves quite fundamentally different to most other filesystems. Filesystems like ext3 or reiser simply do their log reply when they are dirty and all is fine. So if you want such things to be added, please specify it as a feature request. Since there needs to be an interactive user interface to the filesystem check program this is in no way a simple change. Or would you prefer for example do a rebuild of reiserfs internal tree as default without asking the user first? Problem is that the questions the filesystem check tools ask the user are quite special and of course totally different for different filesystem types. #8: Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar(a)novell.com> (2008-07-17 08:13:00) I happen to suffer from this bug too once. I think the bug is not that the installation cleans the disk, but at least say that is not clean instead of crashing (in my case it was an installation where yast thought the disk was mounted but it was not) #9: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> (2008-07-17 08:22:23) No time for 11.1. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305099

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[openFate 305249] Remove agfa-fonts from openSUSE 11.1
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Feature added by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com> Feature #305249, revision 1, last change by Title: Remove agfa-fonts from openSUSE 11.1 openSUSE-11.1: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As Liberation fonts looking really good meanwhile I propose to replace the proprietary agfa-fonts with the open source fonts for openSUSE 11.1 and future versions. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305249

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[openFATE 306193] Provide download statistics in OBS
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Feature added by: Carsten Hoeger (choeger) Feature #306193, revision 1, last change by Title: Provide download statistics in OBS Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Carsten Hoeger (choeger) Description: It would be great to see how popular the packages are. That's an important feature especially for management people. Use Case: Manager John would like to see whether the investment in providing packages for the community did show any results. Is the community interested at all? Did the last press announcement result in increased download numbers? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306193

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[openFATE 306322] Accessing PDFs from within the help centers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 May '14

15 May '14

Feature added by: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) Feature #306322, revision 1, last change by Title: Accessing PDFs from within the help centers openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Make PDFs available from within the help centers. For yelp something along these lines works: /usr/share/help/opensuse-startup-pdf_en.document : [Document] DocPath=file:///usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-startup_en-pdf/opensuse-startup_en.pdf DocType=text/pdf DocLang=en Icon=document2 Categories=System;Core;Translation;Documentation Name=PDF of the openSUSE Startup Guide (en) Name[en]=PDF of the openSUSE Startup Guide (en) DocIdentifier=com.novell.opensuse-startupen DocWeight=0 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: User will find documentation... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306322

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[openFATE 306637] Test
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Feature added by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Feature #306637, revision 1 Title: Test openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Description: Test -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306637

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[openFATE 306960] support update of systems with encrypted physical volumes
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #306960, revision 1 Title: support update of systems with encrypted physical volumes openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Description: Since openSUSE 11.2 can install systems with encrypted physical volumes (see fate #305633) openSUSE 11.3 must be able to update such systems. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306960

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[openFATE 306974] Additional columns in software management
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #306974, revision 1 Title: Additional columns in software management openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: It would be nice if there were a few additional columns in the software management interface. One specific column I am interested in would be an architecture column, to show you the architecture of an installed package or the architecture the package would have if you were to install it. The other column would show the repository of the package, either the repository of an installed package or the repository the package would be downloaded from if you were to install it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306974

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[openFATE 306598] Sync Tomboy/Tasque with Evernote
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Feature added by: Joe Brockmeier (jbrockmeier) Feature #306598, revision 1 Title: Sync Tomboy/Tasque with Evernote Requested by: Joe Brockmeier (jbrockmeier) Description: Evernote is a pretty cool service, but it doesn't have a Linux client. I'd like to be able to sync my Tomboy notes with Evernote and retrieve them from another machine. Same with Tasque -- I'd like to be able to save a to-do list to Evernote from tasque so I could use a mobile Evernote client to look up my to-dos. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306598

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[openFATE 306588] improve on software search
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #306588, revision 1 Title: improve on software search Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Description: software.o.o/search is always a case insensitive substring search. I'd like to hack into the system and add - optional case sensitivity,- exact package name search- regexp search This is an opportunity to learn ruby on rails for me. Any takers, who want to coach me, especially with Rails welcome. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306588

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[openFate 305705] Types of installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Feature added by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Feature #305705, revision 1, last change by Title: Types of installation openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: would be good, that at the time of installation opensuse, ask what you want to install, like a template, without having to go to edit to add software. An example for that will be: Multimedia install Full install server install developer install -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305705

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[openFATE 306606] GUI client for SUSE Studio
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Feature added by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Feature #306606, revision 1 Title: GUI client for SUSE Studio Requested by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Description: SUSE Studio is a fantastic web app, but sometimes it would still be more convenient to have a native client, for example when dealing with lots of overlay files, or to manage writing downloaded appliances to physical media or running and controlling them in a virtual machine. The Studio API makes it possible to write a native client. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306606

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[openFate 305633] Support installation with encrypted root file system
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Feature #305633, revision 1, last change by Title: Support installation with encrypted root file system openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Requested by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One thing openSUSE is really missing, compared with other popular distributions, is the ability to install into an encrypted root file system so _everything_ is encrypted. While the manual installation / setup like described at http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO works, it is still cumbersome and error-prone to setup - especially on systems with small hard disks like e.g. laptops. IMHO this subject gets more and more important not only for laptops but also for normal workstations with respect to the global decline of privacy protection. Since all the necessary software is in place and Yast already has the option (including the GUI) to encrypt /home this shouldn't be that hard to do and would be a great feature for 11.1 (especially if you keep in mind that this will be the base for the next SLE version and corporations love security functionality provided out of the box as an option). Important points are: 1. it should work with LVMs as well 2. it should be possible to automatically generate a key on startup to encrypt the swap partition (given, this would disable suspend) 3. one should be able to use the same password for several partitions so one has to enter it just one time instead of once for every partition. Related reports: * Bug #397411 - Hibernation won't work with encrypted swap * Bug #399298 - encrypt swap partions by default on every boot using a random key * Bug #166067 - sysinfo:/ does not list encrypted /home partition Relations: - Easy to use Full Disk Encryption (feature/id: 304470) - Support installation with encrypted root file system (novell/bugzilla/id: 415479) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415479 Discussion: #1: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2008-08-08 11:39:11) Full disk encryption is already under discussion in fate #304470. Sorry, but it's not public. #2: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) (2008-12-17 09:49:10) Reopened because the whole installer was rewritten but still no one cared to add this. I'm sorry, but this feature request is about adding root file system encryption to openSUSE. When, or if at all, you add it to SLE, I couldn't care less about it, but I surely don't want to wait till SLE 12 ;) Also I understand that you don't want to track and update 2 different locations but, since that feature is asked for quite often, IMHO there should be a location for openSUSE users to express their need (as in vote) for it and to CC themself to get notified on updates / when it finally is implemented. Making the fate entry public at https://features.opensuse.org/ would be nice to have as well (since it isn't actual rocket science and suse is one of the last distributions to add this feature there shouldn't be a reason to track this behind closed doors) but I can happily live without it as long as you leave this request open so people can vote for it & cc themself. Thanks a lot. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305633

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[openFATE 306988] Pythonxy
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Claude Gouedard (cgoued) Feature #306988, revision 1 Title: Pythonxy Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Claude Gouedard (cgoued) Description: Tring to build a General Linux Package from an already existing one for Ubuntu, somehow conterpart of Windows Pythonxy Distribution at www_pythonxy_com. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306988

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[openFATE 306725] DVB Streaming Application
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Romolo Manfredini (romoloman) Feature #306725, revision 1 Title: DVB Streaming Application Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Romolo Manfredini (romoloman) Description: There area already several application to stream DVB signals on a network but none of those actually provided by opensuse are as lightweight as getstream getstream can stream single channels from a whole trasponder using http, multicast, unicast and using a modified version of live555 also in RTSP. Is actually under test support for CA support either for DVB-S and DVB-T Getstream is hosted at: http://silicon-verl.de/home/flo/projects/streaming/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306725

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[openFATE 306717] Channel scan utility for DVBT
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Romolo Manfredini (romoloman) Feature #306717, revision 1 Title: Channel scan utility for DVBT Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Romolo Manfredini (romoloman) Description: The scan utility or dvbscan utility are useful for DVB-S channels but limited for DVB-T Digital terrestrial TV in europe is evolving fast with MUX appearing day after day, the scan utility provided suppose that you already know DVB-T frequencies of your city and relays on files in /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/ for frequency scanning. There is a nice utility called w_scan: http://wirbel.htpc-forum.de/w_scan/index2.html which performs a raw scan of all frequencies supported by the DVB adapter looking for valid digital mux. This utility generates as output various formats that can be used directly by DVB programs or as initial tuning data for (dvb)scan utility. This utility supports DVB-S/S2/T/C adapters and related frequencies. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306717

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[openFATE 306626] Security/Pentesting/Tools
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Gabriel Nigro (gnigro) Feature #306626, revision 1 Title: Security/Pentesting/Tools openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Gabriel Nigro (gnigro) Description: Hello, I would like to see one group of tools seemed to Backtrack4 in order educational in OS 11.2.Could is it possible ? Thanks a lot. Use Case: http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php?title=Tools -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306626

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[openFATE 306996] "out-of-date" package flag
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Artyom Aleksuk (h31) Feature #306996, revision 1 Title: "out-of-date" package flag Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Artyom Aleksuk (h31) Description: There is a very good feature in Archlinux's package list. Anybody (not only registered users) can mark packages as out-of-date. E-mail notification will be sent to a package builder and the package will be marked as out-of-dated on the site until the package would be refreshed. You can see this function, for example, here (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/flashplugin/) and here (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/flag/29883/) . It will be very good to make marking at a package search ( here (http://software.opensuse.org/search) ). For example, this feature may be situated below "Go to OBS Project". It should be useful both for Factory and home projects. Sorry for my language. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306996

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[openFATE 306948] Estimation on waiting time on a package on obs
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Feature #306948, revision 1 Title: Estimation on waiting time on a package on obs Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: Hello, When your project is blocked in the queue because it is waiting for something to build e.g(binutils) can a time estimate be given as to how long to wait before it may start processing - put that estimation on the 'Package AAA (Project BBB home:CCC)' page when you view the page. Example: (Packages waiting queue * Average Job time) + (Your package Nth position in the Packages blocked queue * Average Job time ) = value Put that value in the package page. Some details used from https://build.opensuse.org/monitor It would be nice to know when your package may start to process. Cheers Glenn Responses so far sourced from http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2009-07/msg00235.html > One could implement something, but it will not be very reliable, because the state and order can change with any further submission. > Adrian and > I suggest to file a feature request using features.opensuse.org. But first:What to others think? Do you consider such an estimate ok? Or should we not publish anything since it might change too often? > Andreas -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306948

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[openFATE 306472] Another view of build service repositories
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Feature #306472, revision 1, last change by Title: Another view of build service repositories Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Description: Apart from the current structure another view of oBS repositories that can greatly improve navigation of oBS repositores could be like this: download.opensuse.org/distro1/project1 /project2 /project3 /distro2/project1 /project2 /project3 /Medias/project1/iso /other /project2/iso /other /project3/iso /other This can probably be done by keeping current structure and creating symlinks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306472

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[openFATE 306469] "Publish Current State" Button
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #306469, revision 1, last change by Title: "Publish Current State" Button Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Description: Building packages can take quite some time (and publishing too). While upgrading a whole chain of interdepending packages some can fail to build and leave the repository in an inconsistent and non-installable state => not good to leave the repository in "Publish" state (over night/week-end). Switching from "Not Publish" to "Publish" state AFAIK doesn't trigger immediate publishing but only when some package build finished. It would be very nice to have a "Publish Current State" button which allows one to publish the current package state without having to manually switch publishing state, triggering a fake/unnecessary package rebuild and having to wait/remember to switch back to "Not Publish" state in time. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306469

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[openFATE 305874] Enable peer to peer downloading of patches/software
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Feature added by: Johan Kotze (gogga) Feature #305874, revision 1, last change by Title: Enable peer to peer downloading of patches/software Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Johan Kotze (gogga) Description: It would be great if we could somehow include a peer to peer functionality for the download of patches/packages. This would greatly reduce the number of mirrors required and would increase the performance for many users in countries with limited international bandwidt. I was thinking that we host a torrent tracker on opensuse.org and build a torrent client into zypper/libzypp and allow the user to allocate a portion of disk space for downloaded packages. Most modern systems have ample disk space and should be able to spare around 4GB for downloaded packages. This is also in line with the spirit of community where we help each other out. If it works well, it could also be used to distribute patched internally inside an organization when they deploy SLE. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305874

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[openFATE 306966] No Shutdown/Suspend During Package Update
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #306966, revision 1 Title: No Shutdown/Suspend During Package Update openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: During a package update, it should not be possible to shutdown or suspend the system. Such requests should be delayed until the package update is finished. You do not want to bring the system in an inconsistent state. I consider this a desktop feature, so if somebody runs halt/shutdown on the console, this might not need to work - but if the GNOME/KDE shutdown/suspend options are used, it should finish the update first. Note: Windows does not allow shutdown during an update. What happened and let me to report this as feature: A user installed a kernel update and thought the update was finished. But only one out of the three kernel packages was updated and therefore after a reboot, the system did not came up completely. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: If this feature is not implemented, people can get broken systems - which might result in support calls. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306966

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[openFATE 306767] Yast2 package manager: add more filters
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Vincent Petry (PVince81) Feature #306767, revision 1 Title: Yast2 package manager: add more filters openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vincent Petry (pvince81) Description: It would be nice to have the following additional filters, maybe in the "view" menu: 1) Only show the packages that have a major version update 2) Same as 1) with minor version 3) Only show packages that appeared since the last refresh (see https://features.opensuse.org/306766) 4) Only show packages which version has changed since the last refresh (see https://features.opensuse.org/306766) 5) Only show installed packages 6) Only show non-installed packages The filters should be toggles/checkboxes, so that it's possible to combine them. Such filters are already available in the smart package manager. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306767

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[openFATE 306520] Redesign "Format and Mount Dialog" in YaST Expert Partitioner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #306520, revision 1 Title: Redesign "Format and Mount Dialog" in YaST Expert Partitioner openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Description: The "Format and Mount Dialog" in the YaST Expert Partitioner has several technical mistakes and limitations. * The mount-by method is in the fstab options dialog. This is wrong since volumes are also addressed in crypttab when they are not mounted. The same applies to the "Do Not Mount at System Start-up" setting. So these settings cannot be modified for e.g. encrypted volumes that are not mounted. * The filesystem label is in the fstab options. Thus it is not possible to set a filesystem label when not mounting the filesystem. This field should be moved from the mount options to the filesystem options. * Some filesystem options, e.g. "Disable regular checks", cannot be changed without formatting the filesystem although the filesystem tools support this. There should be a differentiation between filesystem options that can only be set during formatting and those that can be changed afterwards. One trouble is that this differentiation depends on the filesystem used. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306520

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[openFATE 306437] yast2 disk: easy way to mount all ntfs partitions rw
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Stefan Behlert (sbehlert) Feature #306437, revision 1, last change by Title: yast2 disk: easy way to mount all ntfs partitions rw openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Description: Taken from Bugzilla: Please provide a check box that says something like this: "Detect and mount all NTFS partitions Read-Write for all users" I do over 100 installations of openSUSE every month, all on PC that have windows installed, and manually changing it in /etc/fstab is bit tedious. Reproducible: Always Relations: - yast2 disk: easy way to mount all ntfs partitions rw (novell/bugzilla/id: 487126) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487126 Discussion: #1: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2009-03-23 11:53:17) Stefan, please make a feature request if you want this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306437

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[openFATE 306383] Browsing available repositories from YaST level
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Piotrek Juzwiak (BenderBendingRodriguez) Feature #306383, revision 1, last change by Title: Browsing available repositories from YaST level openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Piotrek Juzwiak (benderbendingrodriguez) Description: After test driving mandriva i found one idea there really great, you can browse repositories from the tool used for managing software. It would be great to have such thing in openSUSE (the community repositories isn't enough i think). So instead of browsing for repositories from web browser level we could browse it from YaST level (include something like novice and advanced level, the difference would be repositories shown for the end user). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306383

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[openFate 305716] [openSUSE 11.1] Disk partitioning under installation (Disk)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) Feature #305716, revision 1, last change by Title: [openSUSE 11.1] Disk partitioning under installation (Disk) openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sebastian Furdal (resus) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We all know, that openSUSE as a default wants use on its own entire disk. This is VERRY BAD setting. On this website exist a pool: http://suse.ehelp.pl/modules/xoopspoll/pollresults.php?poll_id=24 POLISH: Czy os11 powinien miec przy instalacji mozliwosc wyboru, na ktorej partycji zainstalować system? ENGLISH: Should os11 installation program have make a choice on what partition install the system? 94% users sad YES (tak) Try my proposal... "See the attachments" Relations: - [openSUSE 11.1] Disk partitioning under installation (Disk) (novell/bugzilla/id: 383886) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383886 Discussion: #1: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-04-25 12:36:23) Created an attachment (id=210574) Disk (GIMP) #2: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-04-25 12:37:01) Created an attachment (id=210575) Button "create" #3: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2008-04-28 03:44:40) Something for PM to decide. #4: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2008-04-28 04:10:30) Actually this fits the feedback I got during fosdem - the _HUGE_ majority of (power) users has to change the proposal. But the "Create" and "Edit" buttons are already more prominently as they were in previous releases. This was on the behalf of this feedback. #5: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-04-28 07:47:26) Created an attachment (id=210885) Version 2 #6: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) (2008-04-29 04:06:15) I do not completly understand the request, I fear:-( Is it (1) about leaving space for windows or other OSes? (2) or about _how_ the Linux partitioning should look like? (3) or about both? I personally have a rather "sophisticated" partitioning (people say: "crazy"), thus I am planning to propose a LVM based partitioning as one(!) option (and default for our Enterprise Server product) with roughly(!) this layout. /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 /swap /dev/sda3 # system VG / /usr /opt /var /dev/sda4 # data VG /tmp /home /srv This more or less resembles the defaults of Unix/BSD systems. As said: it is the "extended" variant of what I can imagine for systems, where Linux is allowed to control the whole harddisk. For systems with shared windows partitions the layout should be different. And suggestions? Comments? Ideas? Proposals? Thanks in advance - so long - MgE #8: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-05-01 02:19:50) (1)(1)does the idea of „automatic partitioning” is to make monopoly in one OS on one computer? [sarcasm] (2)(2)Yes, its only a proposal, more details I can make in some free time. (3)(3)Yap (4)(4)but openSUSE is mostly installed by less advanced users, who mostly do not know anything about Servers (5)(5)Most people on the world have a Windows and they install GNU/Linux with curiosity, and GNU/Linux should not propose to delete their favorite system and all precious data that where collected for years. This is something that makes openSUSE behind almost all major GNU/Linux distributions. And even I do not use Windows, but GNU/Linux (doesn't matter if its not openSUSE/SUSE) but I want check this distro [...] (6)(6)Propose: 1. After detecting disks and partitions Yast2 should propose mount points for all existed partitions. 2. When it finds completely free partition (doesn't matter with what file system - sometimes users prepare before installation free partition under different OS for a new system) OR/AND unallocated space with more size than installation required it should mark it with a green color – that on this partition/space You can install openSUSE with options /boot, /swap, /, /usr, ... etc. 3. When it doesn't find good partition then it should ask “Create automatic disk partitioning?”. a) YES - Automatically create partition setup for home users (example only with “/” and “/home” and ”/boot” - boot is very important for grub, because for example when a user delete under windows Linux partition grub is still in the MBR but it cant find config files - “OH MY GOD, LOOK LINUX DESTROYED MY SYSTEM – I WILL NEVER USE LINIX AGAIN” and most people do not know anything about windows installation “fixmbr”) - ALL DATA WILL BE LOST [red color] - Automatically create partition setup for server - ALL DATA WILL BE LOST [red color] b) NO - Edit partition setup (all proposed mount points in step 1. should remain even without “/” but whit red warning “To install openSUSE You have to create partition with minimal size $MINIMAL_INSTALLATION_SIZE GB”). #9: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) (2008-05-06 20:56:51) Hello and thanks for the answers. Please see my comments below.? (In reply to comment #8 from Sebastian Furdal) > > (1) about leaving space for windows or other OSes? > (1)(1)does the idea of „automatic partitioning” is to make monopoly in one > OS on one computer? [sarcasm] I agree: I have at least 3 openSUSE/SLES systems on my systems, and every fresh installation tries to kill my "vg_data". This is just annoying and will be fixed. > > (2) or about _how_ the Linux partitioning should look like? > (2)(2)Yes, its only a proposal, more details I can make in some free time. I also have some ideas there, ... > (4)(4)but openSUSE is mostly installed by less advanced users, > who mostly do not know anything about Servers Well, that does not necessarily be true according to other requests I see:-) But I agree that the "less advanced users" have to be covered in the most save way. > [...] This is something that makes openSUSE behind almost all major > GNU/Linux distributions. [...] Well, you might simply avoid those type of comments, please, as it weakens your very valid points above and below ( because people might become angry ). > (6)(6)Propose: > [...] Instead of your proposal let me post a proposal I wrote roughly 2 years ago here in bugzilla (closed bug); in meta-programming-language (and covering also datacenter use e.g. of SLES product): if( SAN-storage-found ) { expert-partitioning(); } else if( num-of-harddisks > 1 ) { expert-partitioning(); } else if( only-one-windows-partition_on( first_harddisk ) ) { # case 2 below partitioning-with-shrink( first_harddisk ) | expert-partitioning(); } else if( some-partitions-but-free-space_on( first_harddisk ) ){ # case 3 below partitioning-without-shrink-or-delete_on (first_harddisk ) | expert-partitioning(); } else if( some-partitions-but-no-free-space_on( first_harddisk ) ) { expert-partitioning(); } else if( multiple-existing-OSes-found ){ expert-partitioning(); } else { # empty harddisk, case 1 below default-partitioning(); } I would like to see that a little bit less complex, but I hope it could be a good start; I also hope we can agree that there are only three relatively "safe" & easy cases: 1. one empty harddisk 2. one harddisk full with another OS (most probably windows) 3. (at least) one (bigger) empty primary partition on first harddisk Everything else needs "knowledge" by the person in front of the computer, i.e. an "expert partitioner" YaST module to support this person, HTH - MgE #10: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) (2008-05-26 06:19:13) What do you think? #11: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-07-20 03:40:24) I think advanced partitioning should be rewritten, sometimes it is to complicated ... Your proposal is good but openSUSE should automatically propose simple and automatic solutions ... such as: - propose partitions where oS could be installed - propose automatic mount points - propose some profiles of partitioning etc. What You think? #12: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2008-10-24 05:24:05) Information was provided. #13: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) (2009-01-21 11:57:03) Moved to openFATE from bugzilla. Let's proceed for openSUSE 11.2 based on what we have in openSUSE 11.1. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305716

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[openFate 305472] Support transaction triggers for rpms
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Feature added by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Feature #305472, revision 1, last change by Title: Support transaction triggers for rpms openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It's important to be able to run once after all packages have been installed a command (instead of running the command after each of x packages getting installed, which would make the process much slower). That's basically a post-transaction trigger. For background, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365649 and especially comment #14 from Stanislav. (note that this is work that should be done in upstream rpm, not as patches) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305472

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[openFate 305112] Add webcam configuration module for yast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Feature added by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com> Feature #305112, revision 1, last change by Title: Add webcam configuration module for yast openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Webcam is configured automatically. But for users having trouble with configuration a webcam configuration module would be useful. See also bug #359729 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Users in trouble with webcam configuration need a webcam configuration possibility in YaST. As the usage of webcams is rising, eg. through instant messanger this feature request adresses more and more users -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305112

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[openFATE 306927] GLOM
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Feature added by: Marcus Wild (Affrostralian) Feature #306927, revision 1 Title: GLOM Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Marcus Wild (affrostralian) Description: Database Frontend - easy to use GUI What you need, without the nonsense! With Glom you can design database systems - the database and the user interface. * Glom has high-level features such as relationships, lookups, related fields, related records, calculated fields, drop-down choices, searching, reports, users and groups. * Glom keeps things simple. It has Numeric, Text, Date, Time, Boolean, and Image field types. * Glom systems require almost no programming, but you may use Python for calculated fields or buttons. * Each Glom system can be translated for multiple languages and countries. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306927

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[openFate 305148] Automatic Compiling of Kernel Modules
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Feature #305148, revision 1, last change by Title: Automatic Compiling of Kernel Modules openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The Standard Linux-Kernel provides a lot of hardware drivers/kernel modules. Nevertheless there are still devices not supported by the kernel. If a user compiles a kernel module by himself, he has to redo this step after each kernel update (if he is aware at all, that this step is needed). My idea was to install kernel-source, kernel-syms, gcc and make with each standard installation and to define a standard directory for the source code of kernel modules, e.g /usr/src/updates. When a Kernel Update is done, the system looks on boot in /usr/src/updates for directories and does there a 'make' and 'make install'. (build a kmp-package ?) If this could become a standard for other distributions (LSB) as well and corresponding init scripts would exist, third party kernel modules could be installed automagically after extracting code to /usr/src/update, so there would be some kind of standard for installing external kernel modules. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305148

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[openFate 305493] Look at plymouth for splash during boot
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Feature added by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Feature #305493, revision 1, last change by Title: Look at plymouth for splash during boot openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I wanted to open a fate feature about this when I first heard of plymouth, but reading http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-… really makes me think we should go this way. Ray's comment starting with "Every flicker and mode change in the boot process takes away from the whole experience." is especially interesting. Is it okay to track the "don't show grub by default" here? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305493

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[openFATE 306648] iiimf
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Feature added by: Ailin Nemui (ailin_nemui) Feature #306648, revision 1 Title: iiimf Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ailin Nemui (ailin_nemui) Description: I would love for someone to package the IIIMF - Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework, so I can use some input methods like Chinese Character Recognition "wtpen" in OpenSUSE. The program doesn't compile out of the box. IIIMF can be found at http://svn.openi18n.org:8081/repos/im-sdk/trunk/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306648

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[openFATE 306928] Better integration of YaST webpin client into openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 May '12

09 May '12

Feature added by: Katarina Machalkova (kmachalkova) Feature #306928, revision 1 Title: Better integration of YaST webpin client into openSUSE Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Katarina Machalkova (kmachalkova) Description: <p><a href="http://hedgehogpainter.livejournal.com/#asset-hedgehogpainter-4686">YaST webpin client</a> is done and usable since quite some time already, yet its integration into platform is far from being smooth. openSUSE users have very few chances to learn about it in order to use it. This feature consists of two parts:<ul> <li> Webpin search client will be accessible and launchable from menu entry, added to Qt/Gtk/Ncurses package selectors </li><li> New package yast2-packager-webpin will be splitted off yast2-packager, containing webpin module, client + additional .desktop file </li></ul>The purpose of the latter is not to clutter YaST control centre with too many icons, installed along with yast2-packager (which is in default installation). This way, user will get extra icon only if yast2-packager-webpin</p> -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306928

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[openFATE 306624] voting mechanism for membership approval on users.o.o
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 May '12

08 May '12

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #306624, revision 1 Title: voting mechanism for membership approval on users.o.o Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: To be better able to vote on membership approvals the openSUSE board is looking for some ruby hacker willing to implement a voting mechanism in users.opensuse.org. users.o.o is a ruby on rails application. Pepple that want to become openSUSE members fill out an application form in users.o.o. This is then evaluated by the openSUSE board. Each application is voted upon. What is missing in users.o.o is the possiblity to vote on those applications. This would need a couple of things: Each application needs a state attribute with the following content: * New * To be Accepted * Accepted * To be Rejected * Rejected Also the respective listings in the interface are needed. And for each board member an voting field. (+1,0,-1) coupled with a free text field. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306624

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[openFATE 305881] Add a simple way to access the rpmlint report
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #305881, revision 1, last change by Title: Add a simple way to access the rpmlint report Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: Right now, to see the rpmlint report of a build, you have to get the complete build log, which can be slow (because it's big). Having a faster way to read the rpmlint report could result in some tools to highlight what should be fixed, and therefore in better packages. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305881

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[openFATE 306849] Drop requests comment have to be public/archived
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Feature added by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #306849, revision 1 Title: Drop requests comment have to be public/archived Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Description: Comments of accepted drop requests should appear in opensuse-commit mails which inform about the package being dropped. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306849

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[openFATE 306232] Quality Classification Of Projects
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #306232, revision 1, last change by Title: Quality Classification Of Projects Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: A Project should get a classification, set by the project owner about the general quality. This classification should have an influence to the software search for the end user (by default he wants stable stuff, but he might also looks for latest snapshots). Possible classifications are: * STABLE -- project is considered to be ready to use for End-Users * TESTING -- project should work from point of developer view, but needs verification * DEVELOPMENT -- project is random state, it might work. * BROKEN -- project is known to be not working atm. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306232

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[openFATE 305907] Support Update Repo Generation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #305907, revision 1, last change by Title: Support Update Repo Generation Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Desirable Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: The Build Service should offer update repos as repository channel. It is unclear right now, how we will carry in the extra update information texts. This should maybe designed together with a new changelog handling. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305907

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[openFATE 306367] Boot fast (not just faster)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Feature added by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Feature #306367, revision 1, last change by Title: Boot fast (not just faster) openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Booting fast Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Everyone loves fast boot. Other distributions claim to maintain the crown. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306367

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[openFATE 306625] automatic email alias, irc cloak, lizards data generation on users.o.o
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #306625, revision 1 Title: automatic email alias, irc cloak, lizards data generation on users.o.o Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: To be able to maintain the list of @opensuse.org email aliases, freenode irc cloaks and lizards.o.o logins for members the openSUSE board is looking for a ruby hacker willing to implement automatic generation of aliases/cloaks in users.opensuse.org. users.o.o is a ruby on rails application. Each opensuse member has 2 email aliases (login(a)opensuse.org, forename.surname(a)opensuse.org) an freenode IRC cloak and a wordpress login to lizards.opensuse.org. At the moment this data is exported and imported manualy to the different systems. What we would need is a way to make this automatic and have the data changeable by the user. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306625

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[openFATE 306188] request for RAID metadata version specification option in Partitioner's install interface
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #306188, revision 1, last change by Title: request for RAID metadata version specification option in Partitioner's install interface openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: pgnet _ (pgnet) Description: Allow setting of software raid superblock version in YaST. Relations: - request for RAID metadata version specification option in Partitioner's install interface (novell/bugzilla/id: 483973) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483973 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306188

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[openFATE 306578] Zypper integration with BuildService
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Feature added by: Brent McConnell (everettemcconnell) Feature #306578, revision 1 Title: Zypper integration with BuildService Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Brent McConnell (everettemcconnell) Description: Integrate zypper with Buildservice so that users can install packages from BuildService directly from zypper without having to leave the commandline. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306578

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[openFATE 305859] Make installation history accessible from Yast GUI
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Feature added by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Feature #305859, revision 1, last change by Title: Make installation history accessible from Yast GUI openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Description: As there is now (since openSUSE 11.1) a way to access the history of installed packages and their dependencies, it would be very useful if this history could be accessed from the Yast GUI. In the present implementation, zypper saves the history in a file (/var/log/zypp/history) which is very obscure. The history thus shown from yast should be able to show official-updates and non-official upgrades in different categories. Use Case: 1. Install new software, software not working (or not liked), look-up history start yast, look-up history, uninstall software and installed dependencies. 2. Online update, something goes wrong (upgraded software not working or something), look-up history to see recent updates and revert (all from yast). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305859

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[openFATE 306982] Create an open SLES
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Feature added by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Feature #306982, revision 1 Title: Create an open SLES Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Description: It would be great to have something like centos but that is based off of SLES. This would give people the abililty to use openSLES (for example) and move over to SLES if needed. I believe it would help to grow our user base in the enterprise as well by allowing small companies to start and grow and later move to a supported model. I don't think we would loss customers as these are the people that probably wouldn't be buying licenses in the first place. As they grow this could completely change and they would be well positioned to buy support from Novell. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306982

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[openFATE 305932] testfeature
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Feature added by: Chin-Hui Ho (tomcat) Feature #305932, revision 1, last change by Title: testfeature Requested by: Christopher Hofmann (cwh) Description: test 123 please delete me -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305932

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[openFATE 306604] Include CodeAnalyst-gui package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Suravee Suthikulpanit (suravee) Feature #306604, revision 1 Title: Include CodeAnalyst-gui package Requested by: Suravee Suthikulpanit (suravee) Description: - CodeAnalyst is a performance analysis suite. It provids graphical utilitys for running Oprofile, and analyzing result on AMD-based systems. CodeAnalyst includes several features to aid profile analysis such as inline-function analysis, code-block analysis, and a utility for profile comparison, DiffAnalayst. - CodeAnalyst-gui package is currently in the Contrib repository. - A new version (2.8 Update1) will be available soon with IBS support. - It is compatible with OProfile-0.9.4 and OProfile-0.9.5 (required for IBS support). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306604

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[openFATE 306911] Lightscribe application
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Heribert Riesbeck (ve3fd) Feature #306911, revision 1 Title: Lightscribe application Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Heribert Riesbeck (ve3fd) Description: This will allow to label lightscribe DVD/CD with appropriate pictures, themes or descriptions as opposed to felt pen labeling. This would be a very desirable application for photographers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306911

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[openFATE 306323] Zimbra Mail Server Support for openSUSE 11.x
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Masim Sugianto (vavai) Feature #306323, revision 1, last change by Title: Zimbra Mail Server Support for openSUSE 11.x Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Masim Sugianto (vavai) Description: Zimbra Mail Server is a popular mail server & collaboration suite. Zimbra team has decided to leave openSUSE as unsupported platform due to minimal download for their product (which should be wrong because they said Zimbra for openSUSE only 41 times downloaded comparing thousand for Ubuntu or Fedora). openSUSE is one of the best choice and strong distro for server. It would be sad to see openSUSE fans migrate to another distro only for one reason : Zimbra could not be installed on openSUSE 11.x and there is no binary package for openSUSE 11.x The best way to make openSUSE as best Distro for server area are providing Zimbra package (community builds). There is a project called Zimbra Community builds (see related article) but the author seems to hold the project. If it's possible to be build on build service or with another technique (manual build ?), I will help as much as I can for testing and implementing the binary package and providing the documentation. Related article : 1. http://vavai.net/2009/01/01/zimbra-and-opensuse-thread-on-zimbra-forum/ 2. http://sourceforge.net/projects/zimbracommunity/ 3. http://varlogmessages.vroomvroom.org/documentation/opensuse-port -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306323

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[openFATE 306627] depencency tracking for uninstalling
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Feature added by: Jacques Boulet (oneinch) Feature #306627, revision 1 Title: depencency tracking for uninstalling openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jacques Boulet (oneinch) Description: The openSuSE package management is virtually unbeatable in the dependency tracking for installing department. But when it comes to uninstalling it really leaves little to be desired. It would be great if YAST and zypper kept track of the dependencies that were installed for a specific package during its install and checked the dependencies during the uninstall to see if they are in use by something else or not. And if not then give the ability to remove the unused dependencies. For example I install package "Foo" the requires library "Bar." Library "Bar" is not installed so it gets installed when I install "Foo." Later I realize the package "Foo" wasn't exactly what I needed and wish to remove it. But uninstalling just removes the package "Foo" and leaves the library "Bar" sitting around unused and taking up space. So if I want to remove the library "Bar" i must do so manually. It would be great if I wish to uninstall "Foo" that the package manager would have the ability to check any dependencies that were needed and installed for package "Foo" and see if they are still needed by another package or lib and if so, keep it, and if not remove it. Also, it would be awesome if one could remove an entire package group such as uninstalling gnome or KDE. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306627

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[openFATE 306438] yast2 sw_single should provide a view of packages where no other packages depends on
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Feature added by: Michael Calmer (mcalmer) Feature #306438, revision 1, last change by Title: yast2 sw_single should provide a view of packages where no other packages depends on openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Calmer (mcalmer) Description: If I want to cleanup a workstation and remove packages which I do not need anymore I be able to know some package names which I have really selected for installation. But such packages pullin some dependencies which I am not aware of and so the number of packages growth and growth. A view, which shows me all packages where no other package depends on would help me to find packages I can remove without breaking dependencies. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306438

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[openFATE 305992] Easier removal of packages installed due dependencies and not manually by user
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Feature added by: Nikanth K (nikanth) Feature #305992, revision 1, last change by Title: Easier removal of packages installed due dependencies and not manually by user openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Nikanth K (nikanth) Description: If one tries to install a package say "bzflag-debugsource", then due to dependency "bzflag-debuginfo" also gets installed. But later the user may not remember it and will uninstall only "bzflag-debugsource". So installing and uninstalling, "bzflag-debugsource", does not leave the system in the same state as before. It would be nice if yast2/zypper can remember the automatic package selections and prompt user when the actual packages are being uninstalled and there are no other package that is still dependent on them. Atleast a way to know the list of packages installed due to dependencies and the no of packages still dependent on them would make it easier for the user. And this list should not include packages manually installed by the user. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305992

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[openFATE 306932] Include or support KMess 2 in an official repository
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Feature added by: Manuel Ramirez (elpreto) Feature #306932, revision 1 Title: Include or support KMess 2 in an official repository openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Manuel Ramirez (elpreto) Description: For the people who don't know, KMess is a good KDE MSN client I know we have Kopete for that, but KMess is really much user firendly than kopete and has a lot more of features for MSN network, like MSN Plus! support and winks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306932

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