As I have installed and customized applications to the way I want, my YaST has been collecting more and more repository listings. Today, I needed to add “openSUSE:Factory” in order to install a utility that I wanted. Shortly thereafter, Software Updates reported that there were suddenly 1625 new updates. I figured I should do some investigating.
I have about 20 repositories listed in YaST and many offer the option: “Switch system packages to the versions in this repository”. Is there an effective way to determine what repositories are unneeded or which can be trimmed to use another repository instead?
Also, I appear to have “nVidia Graphics Drivers” listed twice in YaST which may indicate a problem.
As you can see, the only things unusual are the double-entry for “nVidia Graphics Drivers” and my need to add “openSUSE:Factory” to get the software I want.
You should not mix factory and Leap if you need a package fine activate factory and get it but do not keep it active. You end up with a mix of versions and things break.
Also you have both videolan and packman it it best to use onlly packman for multimedia Again possible mixing of versions.
Libdvdcss you don’t need once you get the package it never changes.
If a package exists for openSUSE but not for Leap 42.1, write an email to the maintainer of the package, and ask him/her to enable build for Leap 42.1
Another option is to ask for addition to Leap through a feature request.
Thanks. I guessed that when Software Update reported 1625 updates that Factory and LEAP were competing so I removed-hands-from-keyboard and came here. I wondered if a repository could be added for a single purpose and then deactivated You have answered that.
I was also looking at the duplication between the PackMan and Videolan repositories. I added Videolan when I was trying to get VLC to work beyond the lawyer-crippled versions. Hopefully Packman alone will provide what’s needed.