Michael Andres schrieb:
On Friday 27 March 2009 16:40:27 Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
Why not keep the current priority auto-labeling by YaST?
Look at the situation: The install media (not YaST !) defines priority 100 for the core repos. Although it's not appropriate for your system, you can't help it. It's hardcoded on the DVD.
We will not be able to change standard repository priorities until up to the next release; iter est OpenSuSE 11.2
At the moment 99 is labeled as (Standard) by YaST although (user) may be a better nomenclation thatfor. We would just need auto labelling for 20(Update), 40(core repo online) and evtl. 30(core install dvd).
Yes. But fixing the DVD to define reasonable priority values does not help, unless the same value fits all systems. But I don't think this is true.
We just want to predefine priorities for a standard desktop installation the unsuspecting user should be able to make use of out of the box without having to know about complicated things like repository priorities.
That's why I'd suggest to use symbolic names on the DVD, and locally map them to priority values. In case our defaults don't match your needs, you can change it. 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. 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. The default repo priority issue is not a private issue of me or you. We must think about what the occasional user will be able to work with. Reassigning priorities for special system setups is always possible also without an addtional mapping. We do not want to make a nerd or hacker distro, do we? If you wish, you would be better served with Gentoo or something similar, I believe. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org