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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package management architecture
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:13:13 +0100
- Message-id: <hoodrplnt2.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Torsdag 02 november 2006 17:31 skrev Klaus Kaempf:
>> > No, on 10.2b1 you would have to add zmd+helpers and rug, and on GNOME
>> > also an updater applet using Zmd. At least until the user manually cleans
>> > it up. On 10.2b1 the package management stack is even more complex than
>> > on 10.1, with zypper and opensuse-updater added and nothing cleaned up.
>>
>> Well, we cleaned up the stack dependencies. You can deselect the ZENworks
>> pattern without loosing functionality (update applet and command line
>> tool). The resulting package management stack should match your picture.
>
> Yes, and for that I'm personally very thankful, and I can't wait to use it on
> a daily basis. Only I had hopes that it would be the default for openSUSE if
> not now, then for 10.3 at least, but we'll wait and see what happens, maybe
> the stack can be made even nicer.
>
> If zypper is built for 10.1 like Mvidner mentioned on bugzilla I'll surely be
> happy to use it and test it here too. If a package is made available please
> make sure to announce it. We can't appreciate all the cool stuff that you do
> for us if we don't know about it.
>
> In my capacity of translator I just noticed that a pattern has been made
> for "lightweight package management", very nice. I wonder however if this
> means changes wrt. zypper and opensuse-updater installed by default on KDE.
The new pattern is not installed by default,
Andreas
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> Torsdag 02 november 2006 17:31 skrev Klaus Kaempf:
>> > No, on 10.2b1 you would have to add zmd+helpers and rug, and on GNOME
>> > also an updater applet using Zmd. At least until the user manually cleans
>> > it up. On 10.2b1 the package management stack is even more complex than
>> > on 10.1, with zypper and opensuse-updater added and nothing cleaned up.
>>
>> Well, we cleaned up the stack dependencies. You can deselect the ZENworks
>> pattern without loosing functionality (update applet and command line
>> tool). The resulting package management stack should match your picture.
>
> Yes, and for that I'm personally very thankful, and I can't wait to use it on
> a daily basis. Only I had hopes that it would be the default for openSUSE if
> not now, then for 10.3 at least, but we'll wait and see what happens, maybe
> the stack can be made even nicer.
>
> If zypper is built for 10.1 like Mvidner mentioned on bugzilla I'll surely be
> happy to use it and test it here too. If a package is made available please
> make sure to announce it. We can't appreciate all the cool stuff that you do
> for us if we don't know about it.
>
> In my capacity of translator I just noticed that a pattern has been made
> for "lightweight package management", very nice. I wonder however if this
> means changes wrt. zypper and opensuse-updater installed by default on KDE.
The new pattern is not installed by default,
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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