On 11/11/15 05:42, Richard Brown wrote:
On 10 November 2015 at 19:05, Greg Freemyer
wrote: Richard,
The impression I got about Leap was the support matrix was to involve a longer time commitment to support any submitted packages so I *assume* there are less packages in Leap than in openSUSE 13.2. You know what they say about assumptions...
Leap source packages - 7829 openSUSE 13.2 source packages - 7441
If so, there is a greater need for users to rely on devel projects with Leap than ever before. A user who 'relys'
Richard, you know that the word you were looking for is "relies", don't you?
on a devel project, is relying on something that WILL fail them sooner or later
Leap is for users who want something tested, reliable, that works, with stability favoured at the potential cost of some newer software versions and features
Tumbleweed is for users who want something tested, reliable, that works, with the latest versions at a potential (but mitigated) cost of some newer software versions and features.
In EITHER case, using anything from a devel or non-home repo is throwing out all of the effort we, the Project, expends on ensuring Leap and Tumbleweed are high quality, tested, distributions, in exchange for an untested, uncertain quality package that not only COULD be broken - it SHOULD be broken at least some of the time.
Richard, WHAT *are* you jabbering about?! Are you suggesting that until Leap and the new, "re-invented" Tumbleweed which only came into prominence in recent months, that until you came on the scene and started making your pronouncements on this subject all efforts to produce earlier versions of openSUSE and Tumbleweed were simply a waste of time and were of low or, at best, of uncertain quality but now, suddenly, Leap has become a high quality product? You've lost the plot, Richard. Sorry. [pruned] BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.3.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org