* Martin Schlander <suse@linuxin.dk> [Oct 31. 2006 16:17]:
Presently discussion is on-going in bugzilla about the architecture of package management, mostly wrt. 10.2. I think that we should clarify longer term goals.
Agreed.
Which imho must be to not have zmd installed by default on openSUSE,
This is not a matter of architecture (even 10.1 doesn't require zmd to be installed in order to get updates) but of product/marketing requirements.
as it causes problems and unnecessary complexity without adding functionality that the openSUSE users need. I'm curious if official people agree with this?
From an openSUSE perspective, ZENworks features are not very rewarding. The SLE (SuSE Linux Enterprise) perspective however is quite different. The integration of ZENworks and YaST is very welcome.
Going forward, we will work more towards a unified architecture for openSUSE and SLE.
I've done a quick mock-up of how it could look in the future for comparison - maybe already in 10.2 for KDE users: http://suse.linuxin.dk/pm102.png
That should match 10.2Beta1 ;-)
Whether or not this architecture is feasible for 10.2, depends on the stability of zypper and opensuse-updater. Therefore I recommend to test it a lot.
Fully agreeed. We also welcome suggestions for zypper to make it a true replacement for y2pmsh. Klaus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org