2009/9/22 Sven Burmeister
Am Dienstag, 22. September 2009 09:35:41 schrieb Werner Flamme:
I assume most openSUSE users can read and hence they will find http://www.google.de/search?q=opensuse+kde. They would have to find some page with the repo name on it anyway, since nobody just knows the whole URL or whether it ends with KDE43 or KDE_43 or KDE-43 etc.
I will never find "http://www.google.de/search?q=opensuse+kde" since I never use google. So I obviously can't read, can I? Why on earth shoould I use a search machine to locate a KDE repo for openSUSE when I know that those repositories are located in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/ Oh, I see, I am nobody, since I remember the URL. And I even remember that the base repo is KDE:/42, whereas additional repos use KDE_42 in their names :-)
So if people already know the URL and can read, they just have to read the version of the packages in a repo and that's it. Is that really that hard? Or are you just reluctant to spend a minute on that while demanding more time from others to set-up repo xy?
STABLE, Factory and UNSTABLE exist because that's what the openSUSE resources can provide, i.e. one for testing patches that will be officially supplied via the update repo, one for the version that is going to be in the next openSUSE release, i.e. the version openSUSE devs are working on and one repo that does not get any attention but an update very few weeks.
What perhaps could be added are "services" (http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/351) that would map users always to the correct repo. An "upstream_latest_stable_kde" (with a better name) service could have been used to move users from Factory to KDE:42 and then back to Factory automatically. If an user wanted only KDE 4.2 he would have been redirected from Factory to KDE:42 and, when 11.2 is released, to STABLE with a "kde_42" service. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org