Repository List Proposal

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Repository List Proposal

This is a proposal for the easy-to-enable repository list for openSUSE 10.3

Objective

Select a list of repositories to be easily enabled in yast > software > Community Repositories

Current list

10.3 Main Repo OSS
10.3 Main Repo non-OSS
Factory Gnome:Community
Factory Hamradio
Factory KDE:Community
Factory Main repo DEBUG
Factory Mozilla

Criteria

• Popular repos, that people would like to enable
• Stable repos (at least minimally)
• Relevant repos
• Hardware support providing repos
• Repos providing codecs, multimedia stuff (not sure if its needed, cause

people would need packman anyway

• Extra criteria provided by Dirk

- are not automatically pulled in (e.g. reverse requires)
- do not interdepent on other packages in the same repo
- do not replace or conflict with any package shipped with 10.3.

Relevant links

• http://build.opensuse.org/Statistics
• http://build.opensuse.org/statistics/most_downloaded?more=true&limit=25
• http://software.opensuse.org/search

Categories

To keep with the prefixes (or tags, or groups, could be used to make submenus) in the original list, Ive came with this list:

• Official: for the main OSS, non-OSS, debug repos
• Server: For server stuff that people like to have (extra php modules, for example)
• Hardware: repos that enhances hardware support
• GUI Repositories: for KDE, gnome, XFCE, compiz
• Software: Generic Stuff, that doesnt fit in the previous categories

Repository candidates

This is it, what you were waiting.

With those considerations, I came with this list here, for a start:

PS: Some repos may not fill all the requisites to be here, but heck, I thought it would be a good idea.