Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4656 mails)

[Robert Lewis <rll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

russbucket wrote:
> On Monday January 29 2007 18:28, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> Sadly, my test of Suse 10.2 only lasted a few days. Overall I thought it
>> was nice, but I just could not tolerate the slowness of the package
>> management system. Times of 30 minutes were not unusual just to add 1 new
>> program (in my case). Every time it goes through this endless process of
>> scanning each repository before I can even do anything. I have to go away
>> and do something else while waiting for it to be ready to search for a new
>> program! In Kubuntu the average time (in my case) is 5 minutes.
>>
>> Package management is so fundamental, I think it does not matter how nice
>> the rest of the distro is if its package system is not well-designed.
>>
>> Bryan
>>
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> I have  to agree with you about the slowness of the zmd package manager. It 
> takes 30-60minutes to update a couple of packages. If I go in YaST and update 
> it much faster, (same update servers in both). I noticed in YaST --> 
> sysconfig you can make the YaST updater the default. I have not tried that 
> yet, did you? when I update YaST I get an error everytime it tries to sync 
> with zmd. I post a message on that earlier today. I read somewhere you can 
> disable the zmd updater but that appears to be counter to the way SUSE is 
> headed.I'm going to look for it again and see if it works.
>
> My system is a 866MHZ PIII with 768MB memory and 250GB Disk for Linux and 80GB 
> for XP which a rarely use. Worked fast with 10.0. 
>
>   
This pretty well details my experience.  Sometimes the updater gets to
99% and the
ORB goes out and the screen with the 99% stays forever, although the update
completed.
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