Difference between directories mozilla and mozilla: ?

[MD25]

Warning! This is a dummy's question!

I already tried to read the OBS documentation, but did not understand much...

What is the difference between what's in
Index of /repositories/Education
and in
Index of /repositories/Education:
(mind the column at the end)
???
In fact the question could also be between
Index of /repositories/mozilla
and
Index of /repositories/mozilla:
or any such pair

Which one should a normal opensuse user just wanting to have the latest versions use as a repo for yast ?

[caf4926]

You would use this
Index of /repositories/Education

and
Index of /repositories/mozilla

The contents explain themselves, just drill down the directory, you'll see.

[MD25]

Originally Posted by caf4926

The contents explain themselves, just drill down the directory, you'll see.

I already did it, before posting this thread, on some pair examples.
I saw that directories with a column tend to contain not only versions for opensuse but also for other distros, while directories without columns tend to contain only packages for the various versions of opensuse.
However I also saw that the latest version (for opensuse 11.1, say) was not necessarily in subdirectories of the directory with a column but also sometimes in the 11.1 subdirectory of the directory without column, so that it is not clear for me which one is most appropriate from a user's point of view !

If the difference would be so simple as to express it in a sentence, you would have told me it instead of your answer, wouldn't you ? (same time wasted...)
After all, we use KDE: and not KDE !...

PS: I already asked the same question in the French forum alionet and I can tell you that I am not the only one not having a clear idea of the answer!

[caf4926]

Actually, I don't tend to recommend their use unless essential to your requirements.
If you go to Yast - Software - Repositories
Add
Select Community option
It will offer the correct ones.

But too many users are adding them indiscriminately and suffering as a result.

[MD25]

Originally Posted by caf4926

Actually, I don't tend to recommend their use unless essential to your requirements.
If you go to Yast - Software - Repositories
Add
Select Community option
It will offer the correct ones.

- I recognize the value of having these suggestions for community packages, however I need (for work) scientific libraries or software that are not always up to date or present in oss, nor in the opensuse Education project, so that I am interested in science or science:
- I noticed that all of the download.opensuse.org repos recommended have a ":" column in their name (except the one for games). however in science: you find a mirror of Scientific Linux with few packages (some of them being in oss), while in science/openSUSE_11.1/x86_64/ you find much more and you also find a science/openSUSE_FACTORY repo...

Originally Posted by caf4926

But too many users are adding them indiscriminately and suffering as a result.

I DO agree with you but not everything is in these recommended community repos...