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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience
  • From: Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 09:09:38 +0200
  • Message-id: <200605300909.38541.visnov@xxxxxxx>
Dňa Po 29. Máj 2006 20:28 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett napísal:
> On Monday 29 May 2006 15:57, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> > <shudder> Get rid of Mono! Using a platform designed for cross-OS
> > compatibility to write OS-specific system tools is madness in any case.
>
> zmd is not a required component.
> yast and zmd share the zypp resolver. Is true, if you want a cmd line
> client you need zmd. But yast can do the work if you don't need zmd
> features.
>
> zmd is a plus which give people wanting zmd enterprise one to many
> capabilities a straighforward path.

Just adding: the biggest issue with ZMD is the 1st stage of the installation,
where we are running in very restricted environment, but we still need all
bells'n'whistles of a package management available.

Stano

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