On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:26, Graham Anderson wrote:
This is getting tiresome. Go and pester whoever keeps the Apt repository, as has been said countless times on this list Novell/SUSE do not maintain Apt repositories.
Tiresome indeed. I never once said that SuSE or Novell maintained the apt repositories. I simply stated that the packages are not present there/put there anymore. I also never blamed SuSE or Novell for the situation with the apt repository.
3. The opensuse build service is *ALPHA* software.
Your point being what? Unless I was somehow sleeping for a few years SUSE binaries are still compiled with gcc and packaged as RPM's.
My point is that SuSE would use *ALPHA* software for a *production* build system and part of the chain of the package distro system (packages have to be built first, right?). Doesn't strike me as very prudent.
5. Using packages from the opensuse build service will will tie you to the bugs and features of the version of KDE initially released with the version of suse (i.e. 10.1 users will be stuck with KDE 3.5.1, even though three additional bugfix, translation and new feature releases will have been released by this August--3.5.4 gets tagged at the end of July).
FUD, I just upgraded to KDE 3.5.3 this afternoon using build service repositories and rug. Please get a clue.
It isn't FUD. Your non-core-KDE applications will be compiled against kdelibs 3.5.1 instead of the 3.5.3 you now have on your computer, so they will be missing all the bugfixes in kdelibs since 3.5.1.
6. There is no equal or superior package-management program available for SuSE that could replace apt. Yast most certainly isn't, and from my research, neither smart nor yum are as capable as apt (though they might become so if missing features are added in future releases).
In your opinion. My opinion, and the opinion of many others, is that your opinion is wrong.
The superior part is certainly opinion. The equal part is fact. Will smart or yum on the cli show me a list of package versions it wants to upgrade from and to? Reportedly, it won't. That demonstrates the unequal part, and is part of the basis for my opinion that apt is superior.
Like I said before, go pester whoever maintains the Apt repos you were using and get a clue before spreading such FUD about 'quality' of packaging.
Again, it isn't FUD. Regards, Mark -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com