On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:58:38PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
If we split into 2 or 3 repositories (stable/unstable/testing), the user can choose what repos he wants to "see" in YaST2. If he's keen to install bleeding-edge packages, he can add the "unstable" and/or "testing" repositories. If he wants to stay on the safe side, he only adds the "stable" repository.
I hear everybody here talking about the Debian way of stable, unstable and testing. I would like another way of aproaching and as a user I would like to have just two options. Instaal it or not. With that I come to two repos: recomended and not-recomended. In the first you put all that is standard for a certain distro. That is the safe choice. In the untested you put everything else, untested and tested but of a different version as the standard. An example. With recomended, you will run KDE that comes with your distro. All aplications that are in recomended will work with that KDE version. In not-recomeded you will have a newer version of KDE and applications available there might not be working with the standard KDE that came with your distro. It would also contain un(sufficiently)-tested software. It is a bit of: run at your own risk.
From a programmers point of vieuw I understand the 3 different repos, from a users point of view, two is more then enough and just one would be ideal. -- houghi http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs