Using the new package manager Myrlyn (the replacement for YaST software), I noticed that there were fewer software packages in version 16 than in 15.6 (according to my memory).
Is this intentional?
And is openSUSE Leap still for the desktop?
Finally, for people who suggest I add flathub to Discover… Since I don’t know any physical contact address, I still prefer this other app store: snapcraft.io
Did you set the search filter in Myrlyn properly? It is set to „Auto“ which translates to „Starts with“. You need to set it to „Contains“ to get proper results.
That are only patterns, that will install some more packages and not only one package.
After Installation you can delete the pattern, but the packages installed by the patterns are not deleted.
Honestly, I don’t understand what you’re saying…
Let’s take two examples, as I remember having installed them from YaST software: the game SuperTux and the KDE office suite Calligra.
Now, it’s possible that these software packages come from a version of openSUSE much older than 15.6… having done several upgrades over more than 10 years on the same PC.
However, there seems to be a real little problem today:
I just checked my Leap 16.1 install … I fired up Discover and I found both SuperTux and Calligra available as Flatpaks.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think you might be confusing KDE Discover for YaST Software. The screenshot you are showing here is KDE Discover. It’s not YaST and it’s not specific to SUSE/openSUSE. It organizes packages differently from YaST and Myrlyn and includes flatpaks in addition to zypper repositories.
If you want to browse different packages by genre/category, you should continue using Discover. It’s really good for that.
Myrlyn is basically a GUI for zypper and so it organizes things more like zypper does. It’s not really built for browsing. The screen you shared from Myrlyn is for Patterns, which are not the same thing as the categories/genres in KDE Discover. They aren’t meant to be an exhaustive list of all the software available, they are more like recommended groups of packages.
For example, NetHack, still one of my Top 10 games of all time, is not in the Games pattern, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in the repository. You can still install it with zypper in nethack.
Sorry, I was wrong. I should have read more carefully!
Big mea culpa.
Yes, the programs I was thinking of were indeed installed from RPM packages… But, after more than 10 years of successive upgrades, several of them were from quite old openSUSE versions.
So, I got confused and the topic of the discussion is a bit off the mark. And I apologize for that.
