In the comments to this blog: http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/node/76 it states that it is possible to install plasma-next-beta packages for beta testing along side the current stable branch on OpenSuse.

It basically refers to this repository: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories#Plasma_Next and recommends installing the "plasma-next-session" metapackage, but I am missing 2 dependencies:

libopenconnect.so.3 is required by plasma-nm-kf5 (the available openconnect packages only provide libopenconnect.so.2)

libexiv2.so.13 is required by kio-extras5 and kfilemetadata5 (only libexiv2.so.12 is available)

My question is, if this is this a packaging problem I should report? Or should I just search another repo which provides the corresponding packages?
If someone else adds the two repositories (Qt53 and Frameworks5) do you get the same dependency errors?

Really more an openSUSE packaging issue

libexiv2.so.13 is available but for some reason not in the std (to me repos) see http://software.opensuse.org/package/libexiv2-13 for packages to download

In my install libopenconnect.so.2 is required by plasma-nm-kf5 not libopenconnect.so.3, I have plasma-nm-kf5-0.9.3.60-50.2.x86_64. Are using the Factory or 13. 1 Plasma Next repo?

Interesting, I used the Factory repos and had the dependency issues. I now tried the 13.1 repos and no problems occur.
I guess the 13.1-repos will be updated frequently as well?

Factory is for the factory version of openSUSE not for 13.1

I think they're pretty much the same as Plasma Next is at beta but dependencies will be different because of the repos

I see. It was a misconception on my side. I thought factory just indicates unstable software.