On Thursday 13 December 2007 15:17:23 wrote Krzysztof Kotlenga: > "Dominique Leuenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's at least a decision the user can go for himself; a newer > > version does not always mean less problems. But if you want to be on > > the bleeding edge, Factory is the right one ;) but there you should > > be aware: you get all the nice and new naughty things: be prepared to > > not have the system usable once in a while. > > I agree. For now I'll stick with 10.3 + some nice BS repos like xorg73 > or KDE:Backports, as I believe it's some kind of middle between > "stable" and bleeding edge. > > About main/standard/oss repo being poor - I mean, there are not many > packages. People I convinced to openSUSE look at me angrily when I say > "Well, you have to add this BS repo to install blah blah because it's > not included in main". Why is that?
The main repo has higher limits regarding the code. These packages need a review by the packager and support for two years. This can't be done easily. In the past this was really a pity, because adding further repos was hard. But I think this became much better with 10.3, with the 1-click installation caring about that and the additional recommended community repos. > Do packages from BS finally find their way into main distribution? Or > maybe only some of them? If yes, who decides which packages are more > important than the others? AFAIK, main repository is maintained only by > SUSE/Novell employees? Only packages submitted to openSUSE:Factory does this. We work in the next month on a mechanism allowing to push updates to any other project (including openSUSE:Factory). But decision what will be included in openSUSE main distro is up to the release master (Stephan Kulow). bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
