On Sri, 2015-11-25 at 17:32 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Hello,
But being "advised" of this, however, is not something I, or any new user of Tumbleweed, should have to go through and trawl through the web looking for repositories to make a version of an openSUSE distribution functional.
I'm not sure what are you complaining about? Issuing 'opensuse additional repositories' query gives here (as 1st hit) the following page: https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositor ies There are some interesting informations... This is a list of currently existing *third-party repositories*, meaning they're external to openSUSE. These packages are not supported by openSUSE, the packages may not be tested and the repositories can contain beta versions and other bleeding edge packages. * For official repositories (OSS, non-OSS, Update, Update-Non-OSS) and semi official repositories (including KDE, GNOME and Java repositories) see Package repositories. * For information on how to add package repositories see Add package repositories. * For new Linux and openSUSE users it is recommended to use the 4 default repositories (OSS, Non-OSS, Update, Update-Non-OSS) and Packman. Later on when you familiarize yourself with package management you can add more. * Please, make sure that you actually need a specific repository instead of blindly adding it. More repositories means more complexity in software management and needs some experience to avoid problems and, in extreme cases, system failure. Warning Use it at your own risk." Moreover, there are clean instructions (copy & paste) how to add additional repos, but it's not true that that without Packman openSUSE is not functional...and I was advised even by some openSUSE devs to use http://software.opensuse.org/codecs for Multimedia. See also: https://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories page. Sincerely, Gour -- Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can repression accomplish?