On Thursday 13 December 2007 15:17:23 wrote Krzysztof Kotlenga:
"Dominique Leuenberger"
wrote: That's at least a decision the user can go for himself; a newer version does not always mean less problems. But if you want to be on the bleeding edge, Factory is the right one ;) but there you should be aware: you get all the nice and new naughty things: be prepared to not have the system usable once in a while.
I agree. For now I'll stick with 10.3 + some nice BS repos like xorg73 or KDE:Backports, as I believe it's some kind of middle between "stable" and bleeding edge.
About main/standard/oss repo being poor - I mean, there are not many packages. People I convinced to openSUSE look at me angrily when I say "Well, you have to add this BS repo to install blah blah because it's not included in main". Why is that?
The main repo has higher limits regarding the code. These packages need a review by the packager and support for two years. This can't be done easily. In the past this was really a pity, because adding further repos was hard. But I think this became much better with 10.3, with the 1-click installation caring about that and the additional recommended community repos.
Do packages from BS finally find their way into main distribution? Or maybe only some of them? If yes, who decides which packages are more important than the others? AFAIK, main repository is maintained only by SUSE/Novell employees?
Only packages submitted to openSUSE:Factory does this. We work in the next month on a mechanism allowing to push updates to any other project (including openSUSE:Factory). But decision what will be included in openSUSE main distro is up to the release master (Stephan Kulow). bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian@suse.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org