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[Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2008-03-09 at 19:45 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
>
> > Yast is a nice thing, but if you have enables many repositories 
> (which is
> > necessary if you want some multimedia stuff to work), this "thing" 
> take a
> > hell of a time to start, checking every single repository.
>
> I believe they are improving this for version 11.0
>
> > It seems legitimate if you want to install, but not if you want to 
> remove!
>
> If you know what you want to remove, simply do so without yast. Use 
> "rpm - --erase package_name".
>
> -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.
Hi,
here is an article about speeding up Yast package management.  It 
includes a script to do the job.  It doesn't go like lightning, it is an 
incremental increase.

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Speed_up_Package_Manager_Stack

Regards
Mark
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