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|    Message 137,002 of 138,051    |
|    Carlos E.R. to Andrew    |
|    Re: openSUSE-15.2-1 Initial Impressions    |
|    04 Jul 20 12:32:28    |
      From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 04/07/2020 11.24, Andrew wrote:       > Carlos E.R. wrote:       >> On 02/07/2020 18.04, Andrew wrote:       >>       >>>       >>> Now to Seamonkey.       >>> The level which came with Leap 15.1 was 2.49.4, and this is the level       >>> which is supplied with Leap 15.2 and is ancient, a ridiculous       >>> non-decision.       >>       >> You know, if you use Leap, that this is a conscious and intentional       >> choice.       >>       >>       >>       >>> Multimedia is going to be a pain, there must be 30-50 packages       >>> involved which need to be reinstalled from Packman and I'm not sure       >>> how to identify them.       >>       >> Trivial. YaST: add the packman repo. In software module, switch to       >> view packages from that repo. Then click on "switch system packages to       >> that repo". Accept the changes.       >>       >> As always. Called "the packman switch".       >>       >       > Thanks, that helped although I had to do things differently to get them       > to work. My original 1-Click update for Leap 15.2 had added two other       > repositories (multimedia:apps and multimedia:libs) and that was the       > cause of the grief.              Well, I always disreccomend using 1-Click.                     ...              > Now to Seamonkey. Looking at the release announcements:       > - 2.49.4 was released 4 Aug 2018       > - 2.49.5 was released 4 Sep 2019, it made it to Mozilla-Test       > - 2.53.1 was released 28 Feb 2020       > - 2.53.2 was released 4 May 2020 and is current       >       > The openSUSE maintainer made contact with the Seamonkey "helpline" on 3       > March saying he had problems building 2.53.1, he then said the       > suggestions had helped but it took until around 22 April before that       > level made it to Mozilla-Test (it hit Tumbleweed around 4 March).       >       > 2.53.2 made it to Mozilla-Test within a reasonable period of time.       >       > All levels below the current one are unsupported and 2.49.4 fails to       > render correctly on an ever increasing number of websites. I don't       > understand why the current level has not made it to the main update       > repository at least.       > I can understand the hesitancy with 2.53.1 - it had some "issues" - but       > not with the levels before and after it.       > 2.53.3 has been in Beta for just under 3 weeks now, maybe the official       > version will make it to openSUSE Update for Leap 15.1 and 15.2.       >       > The first execution of a 2.53.x level "breaks" the profile for an older       > level but I believe that applied to the parallel Firefox levels as well.              Yes, but the problem on your system upgrade was caused because of you       not using the default or official version in 15.1.              --       Cheers, Carlos.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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