-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stephan Kulow wrote: [...]
I can't reply to these mailing lists ;(
np, we can discuss it and I'll forward relevant information to the list (although it's a topic that would prolly better be put on opensuse-project than -ux)
No, it's the first time I hear about this. And honestly I would expect a support nightmare with adding repositories on good faith. So while I think it's a good idea, I would like to have first more thought put into a way to avoid bug reports on bugzilla's "openSUSE 10.3" if it's really community.org's 10.3. We need a way to sort this out and our screening team is already overloaded with the "I have 10.2 with SUSE provided updates" bug reports that turn out to have a broken package from some home project ;(
I understand that. But on the other hand, it's a fact that almost all
people using openSUSE for desktop (and sometimes even on servers) add
the Packman and Guru repositories at the very least.
It's also worth mentioning all the repositories in the Build Service,
which are still largely unknown by the gross of the openSUSE users, with
lots of great packages still hidden in there.
I mean I absolutely understand your concerns wrt support and bug reporting.
But...
Adding community and Build Service repositories is still to tedious for
most, unfortunately, although we do have some pretty easy instructions
online [1]. Nevertheless, having them to choose from in YaST2
out-of-the-box would be a great improvement.
The Software Portal project (I'm heavily involved with) [2] also aims at
making the process of finding applications and packages for openSUSE a
lot easier, but where not there yet.
AFAIK the YaST team (Lukas), AJ and Adrian are fine with it from how the
discussion went up to now. The idea would be to have a big fat red
warning (tm) "unsupported" etc... for the repositories coming from the
2nd list (the one hosted e.g. on opensuse-community.org).
Could/should we discuss that topic somewhere ?
How about opensuse-project ? Are you subscribed to that one ?
[1] http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources
and http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/10.2
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Portal
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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