I was curious about something regarding Blender 3D (question mostly aimed at people familiar with it). Why doesn’t the version distributed in openSUSE’s software repository include the Cycles rendering engine? I can understand why support for avi / mp3 is excluded by default, but Cycles is part of the Blender releases on blender.org and from what I know it doesn’t contain either closed-source or patented code. I download Blender manually and use that, but was still curious why openSUSE’s Blender has no cycles and if that will change. I asked the Blender team but like they said it’s the distribution’s choice how to pack it, so I’m asking here as well.
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:46:01 +0000, MirceaKitsune wrote:
> I was curious about something regarding Blender 3D (question mostly
> aimed at people familiar with it). Why doesn’t the version distributed
> in openSUSE’s software repository include the Cycles rendering engine? I
> can understand why support for avi / mp3 is excluded by default, but
> Cycles is part of the Blender releases on ‘blender.org’
> (http://www.blender.org/) and from what I know it doesn’t contain either
> closed-source or patented code. I download Blender manually and use
> that, but was still curious why openSUSE’s Blender has no cycles and if
> that will change. I asked the Blender team but like they said it’s the
> distribution’s choice how to pack it, so I’m asking here as well.
No idea, but I’ve installed the 2.65a (or whatever’s current) release
from blender.org because I wanted the newer features.
To find out why it’s packaged as it is, you’d have to ask the package
maintainer - that information is available through the build service IIRC.
Jim
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Same here, but I was still curious about the package distributed in openSUSE. How do you find the package maintainer in the build service though, for openSUSE’s Blender?
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:16:01 +0000, MirceaKitsune wrote:
> Same here, but I was still curious about the package distributed in
> openSUSE. How do you find the package maintainer in the build service
> though, for openSUSE’s Blender?
Search for the package in the distribution, and then look at the “Users”
tab.
Jim
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On Wed 24 Apr 2013 11:30:50 PM CDT, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:16:01 +0000, MirceaKitsune wrote:
> Same here, but I was still curious about the package distributed in
> openSUSE. How do you find the package maintainer in the build service
> though, for openSUSE’s Blender?
Search for the package in the distribution, and then look at the
“Users” tab.
Jim
Hi
Quicker to use osc…
osc maintainer -e blender
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:52:49 +0000, malcolmlewis wrote:
> Hi Quicker to use osc…
>
>
> osc maintainer -e blender
For those who have it, yes.
Jim
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instruction for normal users
Search for package software.opensuse.org:
Click on the repo name “official release” https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=openSUSE%3A12.3&package=blender
Click on the “https://build.opensuse.org/assets/tools-report-bug-a07282b8171da0828f434e4262c637bf.pngReport Bug” link in that page
Oh… now I remember that packages have an author contact tab in YaST - Software. Pretty neat idea and useful for things like this… that’s why I love Linux Thanks for the info. If anyone still happens to know why Blender is packed this way till then, do feel free to post here.