On Wednesday 23 of June 2010, Will Stephenson wrote:
BEGINS ==Repositories== Repositories are collections of Linux software. They can be used to extend your openSUSE installation with software that is not included in an openSUSE release for size or policy reasons, or to update it with newer software versions that were not available at the time of release. [Note: there are offline repositories as well (ie: DVD). ]
Repositories may contain software of any trust level and may replace important system packages as well as adding new software. In addition, by combining many different repositories and installing their software, conflicts between software versions may arise which cause some packages to be uninstalled.
Before registering arbitrary repositories to your openSUSE installation, you should consider these risks. The repositories suggested by the Community Repositories list in YaST's Installation Sources module are intended to be safe and free of conflicts. However, when installing or updating software you should always look at the proposed changes to make sure nothing is being added or removed that could compromise the integrity of your installation. If in doubt, do not continue.
==Debug packages== To help improve openSUSE, you can report bugs when a program crashes. The Dr Konqi application
People who need this page have no idea what the Dr Konqi application is. I suggest changing to 'The crash handler' or similar.
can install additional debug packages to improve the quality of this crash information. For openSUSE releases, these packages are contained in a separate repository due to their size. This repository is safe to add. [Note: this is not clear since you don't mention that safe repositiory]
I think this should give specific steps how to add the repository (add new repo->add->community repos->debug repo).
==Multimedia Software== Support for proprietary formats and codecs is not shipped out-of-the box in openSUSE. Please see the [http://software.opensuse.org/codecsCodecspage]
The URL is incorrect.
for more information on enabling proprietary formats. ENDS
Hmm. The ugly beast again :(. If I'm Joe No-Stupid-Patents-Country User who's started Amarok, got the MP3 dialog and is now viewing the page, I probably kind of have an idea what this is about, but I'm pretty unsure what to do, even though that's just enabling the Packman repo in the launched 'yast2 repositories'. The referenced http://software.opensuse.org/Codecs page doesn't say much on its own. The Fluendo workshop link won't help me at all, since, besides all the other hurdles, we default to Xine and not to GStreamer. The community information link is better, since there is a realistic chance I'll make it somehow, but it's not much better - I need to select the one out of two 'Restricted Formats' links at the bottom page that is correct and gets me to the pages I need. Will, will you be able to grab Juergen and come up with something that actually has a reasonable chance the user gets to a usable result here? -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org