https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370457 Summary: separate downloading and installing of packages into two processes Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Alpha 2plus Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: funtasyspace@yahoo.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- The new speed enhancements in zypper/libzypp for resolving package dependencies are awesome. But there's on thing I'm wondering about for a long time now: Why don't you split up the downloading and installing of packages into two separate processes? Currently Yast/Zypper downloads a package and then installs it, downloads the next package and installs it and so on. I think, there's no reason, why the download of the next package can't be done concurrently with installing the previously downloaded package. It's a long time ago I used Smart, but IIRC in Smart there are 5 separate processes for downloading packages simultaneously and one process for installing packages. Don't you think, that we would receive notable performance improvements, if downloading the next packages would continue, while a package is installed? Take the kernel-default package for instance, even on faster machines installation of this package takes longer than 10 seconds. During this time no packages are downloaded, which causes the installation of packages to take longer than it has to be... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.