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[OpenSUSE Tumbleweed] Updates and Dependency Hell
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this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
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I assume you have added the repo because it fixed some issues at some point. Is the repo still needed to fix those or could you remove the repo and just update using normal distro packages?
DISCLAIMER: I don't use OpenSUSE or any of the variants. I assume that the obs stuff is kind of like how the AUR is for Arch, or PPA's are for Ubuntu. If it's something difference, please disregard my comment.
I don't know why the repo was added anymore. I'll try a flag that was suggested in another response, or otherwise will try to remove the repo so it does not bother me anymore.
Your comment happens to be fine, but yeah, the way repos work is quite a bit more sophisticated on openSUSE than on most other distros.
Basically, it's not a matter of package updates getting installed from whichever repo has the highest version, but rather you can choose where to install a package from and then it will only update from there.
As a whole, this means you can have many repos on your system which provide the same package, but of course, it still makes it easier to manage, if you have fewer repos.