On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 08:06 -0700, Nagappan A wrote:
Hello Magnus,
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@gmail.com> wrote:
Naggapan,
Fair suggestion. My only thing then is, what apps do one expect to have installed? And what apps do you think we're missing from either the GNOME repo and/or Contrib?
We have openSUSE build service, that's really awesome and other repositories mentioned over here http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories, http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories
I have some end user scenario: Now in gnome itself, we have 2 repositories available (stable and contrib) listed in the above link. If the user wants to add some other package, which exist in another repository, then that also has to be added explicitly by the user to the list of repositories, correct ? If something works out of the box with just adding one repository will be good. Take a case of Ubuntu, most of the time just regular repository should be fine. In some cases, you may need to add just (max) 1 external repository. That ease the process for end users.
Thanks Nagappan
I agree that the myriad of repositories can be mind boggling even to the experienced user. What's not clear in this sub-thread is the *what* part. For the standard user, we have OSS/NonOSS/Contrib. We also have GNOME:Community. In addition, we have GNOME:Stable and GNOME:Factory (+related Factory Repos.) In past discussions, Nagappan has pointed out the challenge for developers using openSUSE platforms and trying to grab the latest and greatest for their work. I think G:F is a good place for them to go, as it seems quite stable to me. But that probably isn't the place to include for regular users. Regular users, however, might be interested in G:S which is not enabled by default. How does the system know and deliver the proper stuff to the user? System can't detect if you're a dev or regular user. I still think the ultimate solution is to create a Dev version of openSUSE-GNOME in SUSEStudio with all the latest and greatest repositories enabled. It's easy enough to do that, I think.
Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member
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