[opensuse] Single meta-repo for everything under software.opensuse.org/download/ ?! (nope?)
I recently switched back to openSUSE (thanks God, 10.2 fixed YaST back!) for practical reasons (good and large repos & 3rd party repos, low number of bugs compared to Fedora 7 and Mandriva Spring, especially low number of out-of-the-box bugs, good KDE4 testbed, etc.), and I am trying to focus on what I want to do with it -- while I still have to cool down every time I see a red "N", because it reminds me of that picture with Ron & Steve... I have plans to learn Qt4 development with C++ and Python, and thus python-qt4 is important -- the only popular distros having python-qt4 (or PyQt4) being openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva and Pardus (Fedora lacks it, and so does EHEL5/CentOS5/SL5). I have added most of the the (mainly official) repos of here: http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories and some of the extra repos listed here: http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories HOWEVER, in order to find a python-qt4 package, I MUST use the web search interface: http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/index.jsp?searchTerm=python-qt4&distro=openSUSE_102 to find that a python-qt4 (4.1.1) package is available only from here: http://software.opensuse.org/download/devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_10.2 I should then add the following repo file to YaST1: http://software.opensuse.org/download/devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_10.2... QUESTION: Isn't there any "meta-repo" for all the repos under "http://software.opensuse.org/download/", so I don't need to perform a web search then to add dozens of repos in order to get extra development packages? The variety of sources in openSUSE is very beneficial, but having dozens of repos is a PITA -- especially when those under software.opensuse.org/download/ could have been united, as they're from a single server, actually! Thanks, R-C Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane with All new Yahoo! Mail: http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 06:34 -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
QUESTION: Isn't there any "meta-repo" for all the repos under "http://software.opensuse.org/download/", so I don't need to perform a web search then to add dozens of repos in order to get extra development packages?
Of course not, not all the repository are compatible together (xorg7.2
and 7.3 at the same time?), and lots of stuff in the build service can
be dangerous and/or experimental, now mixing those with semi-official
repo lots of peoples use is a nono.
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