On Friday 26 October 2007 08:57:54 pm Igor Jagec wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 07:02 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2007 01:09, Igor Jagec wrote: > > > I update my system every day, but I noticed that some packages are > > > still outdated. For instance nVidia proprietary drivers and Acrobat > > > Reader. Do you have any plans to update these packages? > > > > It doesn't really answer your question, but upgrading Adobe Reader (the > > proper name, now) using the RPM available for download directly from > > Adobe is trivial and works just fine. > > Yep, I know about that, thanks. I've just wanted to know why these > packages are not available on Update repository. I prefer using vendor > supplied packages since I always assume that vendor test and debug all > the programs before updating, and so on.
You will be surprised how many patches openSUSE developers donate to different projects, so sometimes you can be better off with 'outdated' openSUSE version than vendor supplied, ie. get patch that will be in vendor package one or two versions after you start using it. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
