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packages available, versus Ubuntupackages available, versus UbuntuPosted Mar 16, 2011 13:16 UTC (Wed) by mcoleman (guest, #70990)In reply to: Taking openSUSE 11.4 for a spin by jengelh Parent article: Taking openSUSE 11.4 for a spin
About a year ago I looked at the packages available for Ubuntu, versus openSUSE 11.3, and noticed that quite a number that seemed interesting were missing (from 11.3). Looking again just now, the situation has improved somewhat, but there is still quite a bit that's missing (as determined by 'zypper search' on an 11.4 box). Some of these may be false positives due to different naming, but I suspect most really are absent:
xymon/hobbit, cacti, rancid, smokeping, ipplan, mediawiki,
This list is by no means all-encompassing--it's just a list of packages that interest me. Based on this, Debian and Ubuntu still seem to have a significant lead in package assortment.
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packages available, versus Ubuntu Posted Mar 16, 2011 13:41 UTC (Wed) by cowsandmilk (guest, #55475) [Link]
I think the Contrib repo is making a big contribution to fixing this. Especially with the freezing of Contrib:Factory at some point for a release.
As an example, for Haskell, there's a repo that will give you ghc and the such ( http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/language... ), but the maintainer hasn't gone in and said it should build for 11.4, so it works for 11.3 and factory, but not 11.4. Repos not building for 11.4 is actually the biggest problem I face with upgrading. In some cases, I might just branch the package and tell it to build for 11.4.
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