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[josef reidinger <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

Jeffrey L. Taylor napsal(a):
> Quoting Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:11:53AM -0600, Sunny wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't Yast use zypper under the hood?
No, but both uses libzypp as library, but yast doesn't call zypper
(except special cases).
> > > > Yes, but it works on patches by default.
> > > > Zypper up uses packages, zypper patch uses patches.
> > > >
> > > > (just a nitpick mostly)
> > > Ok, I have asked this before, and no good answer came up. If they use
> > > the same engine, why there is a difference between:
> > >
> > > 1. zypper up -t package -t patch
> > This is a strange, just one "-t" will be used I guess.
No, both is used.
> > > and
> > >
> > > 2. using yast, select upgrade all packages if newer version is available.
> > This is the -t package mode.
> >  
> > > The second one provides more packages (speaking about 11.0, I haven't
> > > tried with 11.1), and sometimes more conflicts.
>
> Thank you.  This makes my multi-tasking easier.  Yast (on 10.3) insists on
> putting its "Updating ... " pop-up on all virtual desktops.  A command line
> tool doesn't.  Nor I suppose would the CUI version of Yast, but somehow I
> never made sense of it.  IIRC, I used it way in the past, before Yast2 came
> out, but bitrot has set in in my memory.
>
> Thank you,
>   Jeffrey

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