Bug 640467

Summary:	older distro content on todays distro
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Charlie Barfield <nothereforever>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Charlie Barfield 2010-09-20 09:09:17 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 SUSE/3.6.10-0.3.1 Firefox/3.6.10

SUSE was the first linux distro i was ever exposed to. the installation was on a bunch of CDroms. when installing things for this 11.3 version, i dont see some of the packages i selected in the CD distro - namely GAMES.  im sure there could also be some useful utilities that i am missing out on.  now i know that you have probably tried to cram it all into a dvd, so you have had to drop some stuff.

why isnt the packages still available on the online repositories? these options should be available to anyone who chooses to see what things they could add to their installation from the internet, rather than those who may know what distro it was distributed with. if you want to name for me a certain repository, then why not have it placed in the distro sources when SUSE is installed so the user does not have to hunt for it? 

thanks for the help!
Charlie.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2010-09-21 13:11:06 UTC

please see the communities repos, there are tons of additional repos including the games repository where people maintain them.

Comment 2 Charlie Barfield 2010-09-22 11:37:44 UTC

i had never heard of it... (maybe place some in the repo list)