Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

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Marcus Meissner wrote:
> 
> This has nothing to do with it. The /suse/ is superflous, it
> will fallback to "old style" packages if not used, which is smaller.

Are you trying to suggest that you didn't design the system so that it
downloads large repo-data lists multiple times with no dialog or
progress meter whatsoever leaving the user to think the whole thing has
simply locked up?  That may be fine when you're connected to the repo
via lan, but did it ever occur to you that some poor shmuck might be on
the other end of a modem on the other side of the planet?

(And this is yet another instance where the old-style is superior to
zen/rug: Size of the repo-data.)

> Also the source should be marked as "No refresh".

The original poster said pointblank: "I did uncheck the Refresh flag on
the source."  And it *STILL* misbehaves.  Here's an idea: Have the
system download the file only if it is newer than the one currently on
the system.

SuSE has set up their distribution so well in so many other places that
it continually amazes me how little thought you all put into zen/rug.