On 4/15/05, David Krider
I think there's an opportunity here for SuSE to take even more mind-share. I really think there's an opening for an "extras" repository for the enthusiast. Things like James' ULB and the PackMan packages are great, but sometimes it gets a little hairy keeping everything straight. Novell could open up a community-based repo for all the latest, greatest "stuff" that people work on, and make that available as another source in YaST. (Behind the scenes may need to exist a common CVS repository so that the people making the packages can use the same underlying libraries.)
Anyway. I may be completely off-base here. I know there are bits and pieces of this already. I realize that the Ximian guys have some red carpet channels out there for mono and mono-based apps. Will these get updated for SuSE 9.3, and will they receive the "gold" versions of things like beagle between official releases of the distro? I certainly don't know. I'm just trying to highlight the only thing that I think other distro's have on SuSE: access to the majority of "stuff" in the FOSS world, and bleeding-edge packages, if desired, all of which are pre-packaged to "play nice" in native way of administering the system.
Comments? dk
Why not try using apt for SuSE? In the repository there are a lot of "extra" stuff, including all multimedia packages from packman, current application versions (not patches to the shipped ones), etc. Here is a link to start: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/home.html Cheers Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85