I have both TW and leap installed on my machines,
and would like to move one of them from leap to slowroll. But I think most 3rd party repos don’t support slowroll except TW and leap.
Logically choosing TW repos (of 3rd party) is the right choice, but it seems also asking for trouble when mixing slowroll with TW packages, right?
@bonedriven Hi, depends, some have slowroll. So here is my question to you, I’m suspecting this is multimedia related, if so, have you tried your multimedia requirements without adding to see what does work these days?
Not really about multimedia at the moment, but I do have some random repos added such as “Graphics”, or “plextv” on the said machine.
My experience has been that opensuse is already less supported by 3rd party software repos compared to Debian/Ubuntu/redhat etc. Specific support for slowroll shall be even poorer.
I had thought that slowroll was perfect for most of my use case since I’m not too keen on the cutting edge features. But for now I guess it has the drawback of poorer 3rd party support.
In my little experience, TW-oriented repos and packages worked perfectly with Slowroll. Slowroll is just a three-month-old TW, more or less. So unless the 3rd party is relying on the very newest package versions that came out in the last month or two, it should work, right?
There were permanent problems with Packman that builds against Factory and so is “just” several days ahead of Tumbleweed. “Last month or two” is an eternity here.
It really depends on packages 3rd party depends on, their change rate, change rate of 3rd party etc. But you must be prepared to handle situation of missing dependencies.
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