On 11/05/2020 20.31, Atri Bhattacharya wrote:
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."
Not valid for users. It has to say it inside YaST, zypper, and here, search page: https://software.opensuse.org/package/gimp and inside the files in "/etc/zypp/repos.d/" so that YaST displays the info. Hidden in the OBS is only seen by developers, not users. Sorry.
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
So, where do we get them from? From Debian, Ubuntu perhaps? If users should not use packages from repositories, just do not publish them. Problem solved. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)