Hi Anton,
On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 17:37 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 11/05/2020 14:31, Atri Bhattacharya wrote:
There is a problem here. Repositories lack a description or
comment
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."
I'm sorry.
How do you get from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/
Calling this URL <A>
to
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/graphics
and this <B>, my question to you would be: how do you get to <A> in the
first place? To be sure, there are several ways to get there. For
example,
1. You may search for a package foo on
, click on "Show foo for other distributions", scroll down to
openSUSE 15.1, click on "Show experimental packages", then click on
"Expert download", click on the openSUSE logo, then click "Grab
binary packages directly" or "Add repository and install manually".
This will have therefore warned you already that a) the packages are
experimental and b) that you are doing something requiring
"expertise".
2. You picked up URL <A> from a forum post or some other place which
did not clarify that it is recommended to avoid this repository and
packages therefore may break at any time. This word-of-mouth
spreading, so to say, is, in my opinion, the hardest to guard a
possibly not-so-advanced user from ending up using these
experimental repos.
3. You are a long term user of openSUSE and just "know" where to look.
If this is the case, I would guess it is more likely than not that
you will have heard about build.o.o and its connection to
download.o.o/repositories, and that, indeed, <A> is the published
end-product of the work going on in <B>.
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.
Cheers,
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Atri Bhattacharya
Tue 12 May 00:49:17 CEST 2020
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