On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 08:41 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
Indeed if these repositories were meant to be widely used, they would have come preconfigured with openSUSE releases or at least been made easy to add, for example, without making users click on "experimental packages" or "expert download" on the package search interface.
What are you going on about? Oh, I'm sure that's one way to get there, but just as Daniel went searching for the latest Gimp, I went searching for the latest Darktable. That this is 'experimental' is as much a surprise to me as it seems to be to him.
It is, and, if you didn't already, you know now. Please pass on this 'statutory warning' when you share these repositories with others.
As a sidebar, I'd also mention Dave Plater's excellent work to restore the functionality of Konqueror. You'd probably class that as "experimental packages" or "expert download" or "build service" but again I never went searching for it. Dave told me about it and I did, as he suggested, simply a 'zypper addrepo ...'. That this works better than the version on the distribution DVD ... says a lot to me.
I am not classifying anything, the distro is. If you have to click on 'experimental packages' in the package search to get to a package, it is, quite clearly classified thus. As a rule, it bears keeping in mind that you are on your own when using these repositories, no matter how great and/or latest the packages coming from there may be. If you just 'heard' it from someone, they have done you a disservice if they didn't warn you about it first. I am not talking about this Konqueror package particularly; the packager in this case may well have gone the extra mile to ensure Leap 15.1 users are well supported (for example, the packman repos do this too). But don't simply go and 'zypper addrepo' because someone told you so. Cheers, -- Atri Bhattacharya Tue 12 May 14:57:34 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