On 08/01/10 18:13, Martin Schlander wrote: [pruned]
STABLE == Latest released version by openSUSE + patches unreleased/released Factory == Development for next openSUSE
Now, just for starters, why not simply call this repo *DEVELOPMENT*, which term everybody understands, rather than 'FACTORY'?!
UNSTABLE == KDE trunk snapshots
And again, why not call this repo "KDE trunk snapshots"?
Is that really so hard to understand and remember? If it is - just stick with the official KDE packages + Backports and Community.
Ah, now here are other pieces of confusion.... "Backports" and "Community" :-) . "Backports": what the heck is the real difference - except in the minds of developers - between "backports" and "upgrades" to an application? "Community": what does this really mean to someone who wants to keep openSUSE running with the latest "backported" or "upgraded" or "whatever-you-wanna-call-'em" bits of software? Ah, read the wiki, right? :-) Just have a look at the entry in the YaST's Software Management for the info re KERNEL. It states that the kernel (of whatever flavour) has as its Vendor, "openSUSE <version>". But we all know that the kernel is being produced by the Linux/Unix "community".
All other repos, such as KDE:/43/ can be categorized as temporary solutions. To solve some problem for some people.
Last time I enabled STABLE it wanted to downgrade some packages to released version. Would be that good? I don't have idea, so I said no thanks and enabled 43 again (as long as it lasts).
So add backports or playground or wherever the packages you want are built for STABLE.
Oh my gosh...I had forgotten about the "Playground" bullshit :'( . Who thought up this term? Was it some American advertising agency? (We have a TV commercial for one of leading banks where there is a meeting to discuss how the bank can get customers to tell the bank what they need to be improved and how the bank can respond. One of the participants at the meeting is a 5 year old kid, who is colouring in a drawing, of one of the executives at the meeting. In the background is a pair of American advertising experts with a gadget: a basketball hoop which when a ball goes thru the hoop sounds a siren and the ball drops into a pool of water; the American ad. person then calls out, "Ba-Ba-Ba-Basketball!" to suggest that instead of the usual Suggestion Box, customers write their suggestions/complaints on a BASKETBALl and then try and throw the ball thru the hoop - and if successful, a siren and flashing lights go off! The 5 year old turns to his dad and asks, "Dad, why can't we simply just ask, and do, what our customers want?" This simple idea is adopted, and the meeting ends.) BC -- Take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face. W C Fields -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org