[packman] Packman for Tumbleweed

[Richard Brown]

On 20 June 2016 at 10:03, Dave Plater <davejplater at gmail.com> wrote:
> This thread has the wrong subject.
> I think this is a proposal for a new Packman model.
> Rolling release Packman and stable Packman,

While I support this idea, I still think packman needs to stop rolling
faster than Tumbleweed

Therefore for rolling packman, I still recommend it should be built
against Tumbleweed, and not an untested devel project.

So while the discussions about Leap go on in the other thread, this
new thread is to discuss the situation specific to Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed is a tested rolling distribution. While it can change
anything at any time, it only changes stuff once they are tested and
integrated.

Packman's current model for Tumbleweed, building against
multimedia:libs and not Tumbleweed, means that Packman users get
packages of the NEXT version of ffmpeg, gstreamer, etc, BEFORE it is
ready for Tumbleweed

This causes disruption, pain, heartache, and I've now lost track of
the amount of times it's broken GNOME applications that used
gstreamer.

Packman is effectively treating it's users like guineapigs for the
unreleased packages in multimedia:libs. I'd rather Packman be a
reliable source of packages that can be trusted.

Please build Packman for Tumbleweed using linked packages from Tumbleweed.
Also, Bjorn's advice about =direct is still good ;)

- Richard