On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 20:10 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
May be if I explain how this problem originates, I'll hopefully convince you that this isn't some "idiocy" on part of obs://graphics maintainers or anyone else, but rather an example of why installing packages from the devel repositories is not a recommended way of getting an "updated" application while continuing to use Leap:X as the base OS. There is a problem here. Repositories lack a description or comment
On 11/05/2020 19.00, Atri Bhattacharya wrote: that explains what is the use case of each repository.
That is literally what the project's description says on the front page [1]: "It is a devel project for openSUSE:Factory."
We only know that they are either "home" or "experimental". We do not know if it is a "devel" repo or that we should not use it - because the view as user is that if its published, we can use it.
I don't know how this view has proliferated, but it needs reiterating that installing packages from random repositories is not recommended in any way. Indeed, the package search [2] tries to reinforce this by burying packages from non-standard repositories as deeply as possible, and even then marking them as experimental. [1] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/graphics [2] https://software.opensuse.org/package/gimp -- Atri Bhattacharya Mon 11 May 20:19:23 CEST 2020 Sent from openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org