On Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:10, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
We've briefly discussed during the last IRC meeting about what went bad in 10.2 and how we can do this better for future products, especially 10.3. I'm mainly interested in process feedback - and not on feedback that package x is broken (unless that shows a process problem).
So, let's discuss what we can do better for our next distro,
I mentioned some of these on IRC, but I'll mention them here too: I'd really like to see Zypper become a really mature and efficient (+speedy) app for the command line, and I know a lot of things for Zypper are in the works, so let me mention some of them: * Handling of local/remote RPMs (#230223) * A little more caching, i.e. with searching (#213762) * ...tied into, being speedy, which I think is really important. I acknowledge I'll get bad flames for this ;-), but APT (and even Smart, too, even) is super speedy, and it's a little off-putting that that an apt-get install takes, quite literally, less than 10 seconds, but a zypper in something (though it always delivers), takes over a minute with five sources because of the parsing metadata. And just wishes, such as: * Nice and accessible command line interface+output; I think Smart does really well in this regard. One example: show download rate (#227903) * And a very idealistic: solve build dependencies (#169757) * Full metalink support, especially for release time, and a metalink client shipped with 10.3. This would include handling our own metalinks, which we can make work with the torrent too. * Minimal X onto one CD. I think it only requires like 4 packages from CD2. This may be covered by Jaeger's "Making the basesystem smaller" thread on the opensuse-factory list, which would be nice to see. Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros Web: http://francis.giannaros.org IRC: apokryphos (irc.freenode.net)