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In response to Richard Brown of openSUSE, in https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1ix1f4z/comment/mej6yhz/ (not totally related to the problems in the comment below):

Honestly, it becomes a disturbingly common thing to see how a person with a project flare and affiliation (you were the board member for 7 years according to your public profile and also are a distro architect at the moment) is flexing over a regular users opinion just because they can. Please, step back for a sec and imagine yourself as a regular openSUSE user not knowing anything about your job and problems.

Yes, SUSE team, and thus distributives, has a (strong) opinion on what is a good repo/kernel module/package/policy/etc and has a full right to do. As a software engineer that cares about quality and consequences myself, I'd be glad to support project's and your's stance on (not) adding a policy-less repo.

At the same time, users have their needs, which any particular project may or may not fulfill, completely or partially.

It was and still is the norm that a regular distro user would almost always include the Packman repo, because they need these few bits that are provided from there, to access these pesky media files.

I have been using openSUSE distros as about as long as you do (so about 20-ish years) and I have been seeing and doing this every (desktop) install. Because it's an eaiest way to get things done and proceed with what I'm doing with my computers besides installing the OS and adding repos.

I'd like not to do this zypper ar ... for Packman. I'd like to use ZFS on openSUSE (or on Linux in general) without pain. But I could not and, quite likely, never would be able to.

And this makes me quite sensitive to comments like yours from people like you (sorry to make it seem a personal quarrel, it's not) - strong and lacking any sign of understanding of your opponents, these mere users.

This comment https://fosstodon.org/@sysrich/111194234087319312 looks like a hipocrisy after all that.