Just installed Leap and noticed Docky is not available, but Plank (lighter version) is. Docky is available in 13.2 I think and in Tumbleweed for sure, so why this decision?
And in general, what are the reasons for not providing common applications in the official repositories? For example, another two applications heavily used and that are not available in the official repos (they are via other means): Eclipse and Audacious
It generally takes a little time to get all the extra packages built and working on a new release. It was only released officially today so give a little time for all things to catchup
If it does not show up in a week or two and if it has not shown maybe ask again
ahh so in OpenSUSE the release of a stable version doesn’t mean its packages are definitive as in other distros?
No many packages are provided by others Thus those other must do the update to the new OS. Not every package in the world is part of the OS. I’m pretty sure that docky is one of the packages that are not part of the OS. So someone must get off their butt and recompile it. You want to volunteer?? This is a community distro.
They are.
The packages in the distribution are frozen after release, (bugfix and security) updates are provided via the Update repo only.
That isn’t true for 3rd party addon repos though.
Btw, docky is missing in Leap because it doesn’t build for Leap (some build dependencies are missing too for whatever reasons):
If it is fixed at some point (I’m not sure whether that’s possible though), you could install it from that repo e.g.
Or somebody else might build the necessary requirements and docky for Leap.
I see that a package docky is in the OSS repo for 13.1.
Thus it is not some extra in 13.1, but part of the “official” release.
Thus I doubt that googlethorpe’s remark is correct for this case. It holds however true for all other repos (including Packman).
Thus, imho, your original question still is unsolved.
EDIT: I see it is now answered by wolfi323.
Docky was provided by OpenSUSE, not by a third party provider, hence my question.
guess I’ll stick with Gnome Dash to Dock extension for now…
Checking that link, I searched for Plank and it says it’s disabled (Show openSUSE:Leap:42.1 / plank - openSUSE Build Service). What does that mean? Because at this moment it’s available for install.
That means that the package is not being built any more.
That’s standard practice: after all packages have been built for the release and published in the repo, they are disabled.
There’s no point to build them again, as the repo is frozen after the release.
Updates are being branched (forked) from the original packages and built/published separately.
On Wed 04 Nov 2015 05:46:02 PM CST, yzT wrote:
gogalthorp;2734987 Wrote:
> No many packages are provided by others Thus those other must do the
> update to the new OS. Not every package in the world is part of the
> OS. I’m pretty sure that docky is one of the packages that are not
> part of the OS. So someone must get off their butt and recompile it.
> You want to volunteer?? This is a community distro.
Docky was provided by OpenSUSE, not by a third party provider, hence my
question.
wolfi323;2734989 Wrote:
> They are.
>
> The packages in the distribution are frozen after release, (bugfix and
> security) updates are provided via the Update repo only.
>
> That isn’t true for 3rd party addon repos though.
>
> Btw, docky is missing in Leap because it doesn’t build for Leap (some
> build dependencies are missing too for whatever reasons):
> Welcome - openSUSE Build Service
>
> If it is fixed at some point (I’m not sure whether that’s possible
> though), you could install it from that repo e.g.
> Or somebody else might build the necessary requirements and docky for
> Leap.
guess I’ll stick with Gnome Dash to Dock extension for now…
Checking that link, I searched for Plank and it says it’s disabled
(Show openSUSE:Leap:42.1 / plank - openSUSE Build Service). What
does that mean? Because at this moment it’s available for install.
Hi
I’m asking the openSUSE Gnome maintainers at the moment on IRC, if we
can sort it out in GNOME:Apps it will appear, else I’m about to create
a build for SLE 11 SP4, so can look at adding a Leap build in my home
repo…
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