Michael Schroeder schrieb:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
No I don't like the idea of an additional repo priority mapping because it makes things more complicated rather than easier.
The goal should be to preassign repo priorities in a way so that the unsuspecting user does not have to change them.
Right.
The reason why I am suggesting default repo priorities is that things should work out of the box. Look at bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489124. Fallacies like these are really unnecessary and can even hit an expert user hacking compilers like me.
But those bugs wouldn't happen if all repos had priority=99 as a default. Everything else gets in the way of local policies set by the system admin.
Perhaps these things should not happen if all repos have the same priority; but they still can: Yust imagine an update for program X is released sooner for OpenSuse11.0 than for OpenSuse11.1 (normally that should not happen, but in practice if something can go wrong it will go wrong). Then program X will be replaced for the OpenSuse11.0 version instead of waiting for the same update as an Opensuse11.1 version. This is not what we actually want. I would suggest user added repos to have a lower priority i.e. a higher number (how confusing) because these sources are generally less trustworthy (Packman, SW self compiled by Opensuse-users , 3rd party SW). This is also a security issue; and Opensuse has some kind of pent-up demand for more security (http://en.opensuse.org/Security). Besides this security may still be a reason to switch from Windows to Linux. We should not destroy our security concept by a slackness like this.
Cheers, Michael.
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