Bryan Tyson wrote:
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I have only one reason: the excruciatingly slow package management system. Overall, OpenSuse is very nice. However, it does not matter how nice it is if one must wait half an hour or an hour every time one does anything with packages. In my opinion, if the package system is unusable, the distro is unusable.
Well, except for the occasional failure to finish, which I then have to fix by firing up YOU, zen has been behaving pretty well under 10.2. It is slow, but so what? You don't have to sit there watching it. I simply start it up, go on with whatever I'm doing, and check its progress once in a while. Now, if it still crippled or slowed my machine for long periods, as it did under 10.1, I'd have a real complaint, to my way of thinking. Of course, I do wish the repository checking were more efficient. Almost all the time it takes is under "checking for updates" and "checking requirements", even though it has just turned orange because updates were available. And WHY do I have to remember to check the automatic requirements checking box every time? If anything, it should be the opposite -- default to checking requirements, and unchecking for the odd occasion when it's not appropriate for some special reason. -- John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org