On 24/04/11 11:32, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
On 4/23/2011 7:13 PM, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
To work openSUSE you need, as a minimum, a Master's Degree in *The Advanced
Chaos Theory* which then provides some sliver of a chance of working out the conventions used in naming the repositories, what they are really supposed to mean, and what they are meant to contain and provide to the user.....and at which particular point in time...maybe.
You are free to use a less complicated distro. Ubuntu perhaps?
Ah, thank you, Michael, for your incisive suggestion - which I have found to be typical of Linux distro users who are not able of recognising that what they are using may, just may, not be perfection personified. I actually am using Ubuntu. Well, sorry, I do tell a slight mistruth :-[ : I am at the moment trying to use openSUSE 11.4/KDE - and trying to get it to work the way I want it to work [1].
I never had a problem trying to figure out what repo was for what.
Which is ever so nice to hear considering that even at least one well known, and well respected user, of openSUSE of many years (Hi, JA!) has expressed only a couple of days ago that the Repo debacle is the biggest 'Achille's Heel' of openSUSE. The most sensible, useful, and perhaps truly workable, way for a user to update/upgrade her/his installation is the the original Debian way: the Synaptic way and not what oS uses. I think even SMART is better (when I did use it) - something which I will again have to explore in the foreseeable future. But then....what do I know? [1] I used oS for years. Chucked it when KDE#4 was foisted on users. Now I am retrying oS with KDE because Ubuntu with "Unity" is the lesser of two eviils [2] - at least with KDE one knows where one stands, and it is here for the long haul (at least in my opinion). [2] As far as I am concerned, Gnome is now "dead": gnome #3 is worse than Unity and gnome #2.x simply cannot continue to be maintained by fewer and fewer volunteers. Sorry gnome devs :-( - you're spitting into the wind now that your staunchest supporter, Ubuntu has abandoned you.....[but don't feel too bad: openSUSE never really supported you, really, with its preferred KDE flag flying at its masthead] :-( . BC -- "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I am going to be an uncle or an aunt." Chuck Nevitt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org