-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2020-05-12 at 12:04 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 12/05/2020 01.10, Atri Bhattacharya wrote:
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There may possibly be other ways. It would be nice to know the route users take to end up at <A>, so that it may be possible to set up proper warning lights along the way.
See my answer to Knurpht.
You really have to add the repo description in the opensuse search page results, and display it in YaST and in Zypper - if you really want us to know that it is a devel repo for factory and that we are not expected to use it.
Essentially, users are not expected to use anything but the official repos -
download.o.o/distribution download.o.o/tumbleweed download.o.o/update
download.o.o/repositories should be considered experimental.
That is hardly major news to anyone?
We do understand that extra repos are extra, not official. Experimental. Ok, fine. But Atri is basically telling us to not install them at all! As Andrei says, why publish gimp for Leap if we are not supposed to install and use it? If a repo is published for Leap, it should at least be installable on Leap and "work", for some value of work. And if it doesn't work, there must be a channel for users to inform devs that it doesn't. And another selling point for Leap, is that when people say that it is obsolete technology, we can counter that it is basically stable, but that they can get that package they want in a much newer version from the repositories. One of the big selling points of openSUSE is that there are many extra repositories to obtain /anything else/. In fact, I have been told often by users (outside of here) that other distributions have more packages than openSUSE, and I had to tell them that there are many more in extra repositories. And show them how to search for what they missed. For example, I asked google how many packages debian or opensuse got - in Spanish, but I'll translate it. The answer for OS is specially relevant: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=cuantos+paquetes+tiene+debian%3F Debian viene con más de 59000 paquetes (software precompilado y empaquetado en un formato amigable para una instalación sencilla en su máquina), un gestor de paquetes (APT), y otras utilidades que hacen posible gestionar miles de paquetes en miles de ordenadores de manera tan fácil como instalar una sola aplicación.Mar 9, 2020 Debian -- Acerca de Debian Debian comes with over 59000 packages (software precompiled and packaged in a user-friendly format for easy installation on your machine), a package manager (APT), and other utilities that make it possible to manage thousands of packages on thousands of computers as easily as installing a single application.Mar 9, 2020 Debian -- About Debian https://www.debian.org/intro/about.es.html https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=cuantos+paquetes+tiene+opensuse%3F software.opensuse.org ofrece más de 200.000 paquetes de software creados por cientos de usuarios que contribuyen mediante build.opensuse.org una herramienta pública de Open Build Service (OBS). La instalación de paquetes es muy fácil gracias a la tecnología de instalación de openSUSE llamada 1-click.Mar 22, 2013 openSUSE explicado para aquellos que lo quieran probar ... https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2013/03/22/opensuse-explicado-para-aquel... software.opensuse.org offers more than 200,000 software packages created by hundreds of users who contribute through build.opensuse.org a public Open Build Service (OBS) tool. The installation of packages is very easy thanks to the openSUSE installation technology called 1-click.Mar 22, 2013 openSUSE explained for those who want to try it out ... (Automated Translation done by DeepL) Notice that the answer that google selects as main one doesn't come from official sources, but the Debian one is official. Maybe openSUSE Public Relations Office can do something about that ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXrp6cBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV/QMAoItPfGgX4ki0VNbIDXoz gNb3aq5tAJ934QMe0QmQP9ZrzvK2dNwn4IEKZw== =NeQ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----