On samedi 29 avril 2017 10:01:43 CEST David Vincent-Jones wrote: > Looking at the openSuse 'official' repos. I find 2 options, I was using > the first one. > > Question: will there be any downside to my making the switch? Should I > do a total un-install? > > * home:darix:darktable... > > <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=home%3Adarix%3Adarktable%3 > Amaster&package=darktable> > > o 2.3.0~git598.87e9b98 > home:darix:darktable... > > <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=home%3Adarix%3Adarktable%3 > Astable-2.2&package=darktable> > > o 2.2.4~git4.af01996 Neither of these are _official_ repositories supported by OpenSuse; see their list of (semi)-official repositories at https://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories#Factory_and_Project_repositories . And even for some there, I quote: "These are repositories available which are not officially supported by openSUSE, but they contain useful packages which you should feel free to use *at your own risk*."
The repositories you refer to are external, third party repositories that use an infrastructure provided by OpenSuse, but OpenSuse does not guarantee anything about the contents. That said, I've used several (a lot...) of those without any problems, but that could have been pure chance... Like Roman said, you should be fine just selecting the other version without a complete uninstall first. They main problem you could run into when downgrading to a lower version number is a change in the database layout, but I suspect Roman would have mentioned that. Do remember what you did, and make a backup of the database, just in case. Remco. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
