Hello, On Jun 22 08:53 Benji Weber wrote:
Unlike the term "installation source" (which is a term invented for this specific usage, people would have to learn what it means). "Repository" is a common English word that is used for exactly this purpose. To quote the Oxford English Dictionary a repository is:
1a. A vessel, receptacle, chamber, etc., in which things are or may be placed, deposited, or stored.
1b. A place, room, or building, in which specimens, curiosities, or works of art are collected; a museum.
1c. A place where things are kept or offered for sale; a warehouse, store, shop, mart.
A place or thing within which something immaterial is thought of as deposited or contained.
A part or place in which something is accumulated or exists in quantities.
Replace the generic "thing" with the specific "software" in any of these definitions and it fits the usage. I'm not sure we can justify creating a new term when one already exists in English.
I am no native English speaker but with the above definition "repository" seems to be an easy but meaningless word. It seems it is "anything where software can be" so that also my harddisk is a "repository" and also each of its partitions and any download area wherever in the Internet for whatever software, all are simply "repositories". But as far as I understand we are only interested in the particular "repositories" which can be used to "install software for openSUSE" and then those "repositories" are sources from which one can install software i.e. "installation sources". Or do I misunderstand it completely? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org