On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:15:07AM +0100, Martin Vidner wrote:

> since we rewrote snapper's zypp plugin from Python to C++, snapper has new
> build dependencies that break the build for old distros.

What distros should be interested in the zypper plugin except
openSUSE and SUSE? Why not allow to disable that plugin?

> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/filesystems:snapper/snapper
> 
> I suspect that many of the build targets were addded just because we could,
> not because they serve a purpose.

At least when snapper was new they served the purpose to promote snapper.

> Can we simply drop them? If not, what should our supported
> distro policy for Snapper be?

Maybe never drop a supported distro unless the effort to keep
them is huge.

ciao Arvin

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