On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:50:31 Martin Schlander wrote:
Tirsdag den 21. april 2009 10:23:01 skrev Daniel Mader:
while we're at it, why not create another 5 repositories for KDE4? Desktop, Extra, Playground, and Community is not enough to fully confuse users where to get packages from.
You seemed to miss the point that Extra-apps is being phased out. Meaning the number of repos remains the same, and this change can only be positive for users and packagers alike.
Ah, true, I really missed that in the initial email :)
However maybe now is a good time to plan further cleanup. Since soon many users will want to fiddle with their repos anyway to remain on 4.2.x when 4.3beta moves to factory.
Here's what I suggest: * Drop the KDE4: part and the now/soon redundant :Desktop part. * Merge kde4:community into (kde3) community * Use Backports for KDE4 apps as well
For 11.1 that would leave us with the following:
"Desktops" /KDE:/STABLE:/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only) /KDE:/Factory:/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only) KDE:/UNSTABLE:/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only) /KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only)
"Add-ons" /KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.1/ (novell only?) /KDE:/Community/openSUSE_11.1/ (anybody) /KDE:/Playground/openSUSE_11.1/ (anybody)
May I ask why Community and Playground are separated at all? Both repos are mostly community-maintained, and surely the maturity of a package can't be derived from the repo: I've seen too many failing released versions, while at the same time I sucessfully use so-called betas. If a package is built from svn or from release sources, that information could and should be deducted from the version/minor version of a package better than from the repo it comes from... I am sure that users who like additional software exceeding the delivered one know what that means in terms of maintenance and maybe code quality. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org