On Saturday 27 October 2007 06:12:51 am Igor Jagec wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 02:39 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2007 08:57:54 pm Igor Jagec wrote: > > > Yep, I know about that, thanks. I've just wanted to know why these > > > packages are not available on Update repository. I prefer using vendor > > > supplied packages since I always assume that vendor test and debug all > > > the programs before updating, and so on. > > > > You will be surprised how many patches openSUSE developers donate to > > different projects, so sometimes you can be better off with 'outdated' > > openSUSE version than vendor supplied, ie. get patch that will be in > > vendor package one or two versions after you start using it. > > When I said vendor supplied, I meant openSUSE version. Seems I choose > the wrong term, sorry :)
Nothing to be sorry about. It appeared to me that vendor means 'original software producer', which many people use without consideration that Linux is quite different. API is changing more often than in other OS and creating stable set of applications that 'talk the same language' is not trivial. > I'm quite new to openSUSE, so I was just asking about all that. When I > was a Fedora user, I've always followed Fedora's recommendations (such > as: use Yum for installing/updating software, use Livna's nVidia > packages instead of nVidia's tarball package, and so on), and I've never > had serious issues with Fedora. Now on openSUSE I'm doing the same > thing. For instance, I've followed the recommendation for using Zypper > instead of SmartPM from the starters. > > Cheers! It is always good to use original tools, and up to 10.1 there was no problems to convince people as only those that used third party software without experience how to handle them had problems. Package management problems with 10.1 that are finally cleaned with 10.3 were the reason that many used Smart. Speed of package manager is not all that counts. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
