Michael Wolf wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 11:20 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
So I would like to propose:
GNOME platform: Keep the two-repos concept.
GTK+ platform: Ditto, may have its own repos or use GNOME repos.
I wonder how many people who just want to install the software care about the difference. Some people who use XFCE probably do, but they also tend to know what they're doing and are able to avoid installing apps that pull in all sorts of GNOME dependencies if that's really what they want to do.
Well. For example, latest gimp-unstable in multimedia:photo fails in older products due to too old GTK+. I have to base its build on the whole GNOME:STABLE. It's bad fot most users, because they will get rolling updates of the whole GNOME instead of only multimedia:photo and GTK+. As repository dependencies work well in the latest zypp, I would like more repositories.
Applications: Create a separate repository of applications, which don't follow GNOME/GTK+ release cycle. Maybe even better, drop many of them. For example gqview or GIMP development would fit much better to multimedia:photo than GNOME:UNSTABLE.
Maybe. I guess it depends on how the "man on street" goes about looking for, say, the latest pidgin or inkscape.
Gstreamer: I am thinking about move to multimedia:something altogether with multimedia libraries. It would make Gstreamer build simpler.
randmom packages: remove them
mono packages and mono based packages: check whether they are in mono projects and move or drop in GNOME repos.
For apps that happen to be written in mono, who cares? They should stay in GNOME: or go somewhere more specific. For things like dependencies, though, I think I agree.
People who want only the latest GNOME:STABLE would probably not carry about problems of update to the latest mono. That is why I would like to see mono applications separately, so only people who really want the latest mono will have to install it. The same problem exists with gstreamer: GNOME can work well with older gstreamer version, update to the latest gstreamer version would require update of many multimedia libraries. Having more repositories would allow users to install (and subscribe for rolling updates) for a minimal set of packages. -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: sbrabec@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966, +49 911 740538747 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org