On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 09:25 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 12/05/2020 08:24, Atri Bhattacharya wrote:
The best way to get latest versions of applications on openSUSE is to use Tumbleweed.
Not so. Use Tumbleweed and you get experimental versions of everything that makes up openSUSE rather than the latest and determined stable versions of specifics.
If I may, that seems to be your assumption, and a rather interesting one. I would love to know how you came to believe that. If from some official channel, it would be worth correcting this misinformation. Except in a very few cases, packages in TW are only updated when the upstream for that application tags and releases a stable version. In very rare cases, when upstream hasn't released a tagged version in a long while, a packager might bundle up all the latest commits from upstream git master and push it as version A.B+gitxxxxxxx, especially if that happens to fix a lot of bugs or solve building problems with updated dependencies. Yes, TW does have bugs sometimes -- which distro doesn't? -- but these are more often than not due to two or more updated packages not living very happily together, rather than the instability of any one package, and, even so, usually fixed soon.
If I wanted latest/unstable version of Darktable there is a repository for that; I can pull HEAD from git or similar. I can compile that myself, manually apply patches, only I don't/cant (since I don't have the compiler suite or use build) git://github.com/darktable-org/darktable.git.
Guess what version of darktable is on TW right now (from official repositories)? Version 3.0.2; not some arbitrary git master commit. GIMP? 2.10.18, not its git master. GNOME? 3.36.2, not the 3.37.x unstable branch in development upstream. Linux kernel? 5.6.x, not the 5.7-RCx in upstream development.
But as I say, I'm not a developer, not interested in being a developer, not interested in the 'experimental'.
One isn't asking you to become a 'developer'! Just try to be educated about where the package you are using comes from and the level at which you need to be able to administer your system should you choose to use outside-of-preconfigured repositories. And warn any user with whom you share this info of the same. If I wanted every user to be advanced enough to compile their own packages, I wouldn't go make RPM packages for anyone, would I? That's not the level of 'advanced' I am talking about. Cheers, -- Atri Bhattacharya Tue 12 May 15:50:30 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