Just posted this article to Planet SUSE News. One thing I would like to say regarding it, but can't be bothered to say in the site's forum thingy is that the author only mentions PackMan as an external installation source. Now, I know the article is looking in this case as at a specific area of functionality that the PackMan crew cover (namely the availability of Win32 codecs), but it gives the impression that they are the only source of third party packages, simply not true. In addition to my repository and Pascal's, there are a large number of other installation sources to choose from.