Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Saturday 17 February 2007 4:26 am, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Deinstall zmd, zen-updater and rug and install zypper and opensuse-updater instead - use YaST to do the install,
Why does opensuse come with things that need to be deinstalled and replaced with different things? Shouldn't it be already set up with what works?
Is the quoted portion above the official recommended package management plan for opensuse? What is the role of smart, if any?
Linux is made so :-). Many users, many personal histories... users coming from other distribution like to find they prefered package management programm :-) Novell sell a management programm called Zenworks with it's SLES/SLED. This programm is quite a nice piece of soft and Novell will probably give it Opensource one time or an other. It begins by parts. one year ago somebody had the (bad) idea to include in openSUSE the zen-updater, a part of Zenworks. The idea was bad because the decision was taken late (in the distro release cycle) and so the product bad integrated and because this product have features may be usefull with the hole zenworks, but of little use for us now. However these features made it extremely slow. Novells programmers did a quite good job making zen-updater may be 10x faster than it was, but the result is still slow and over featured, so openSUSE, with 10.3 is probably coming back to a dedicated update system (opensuse-updater) in the mean time, many people, tired of zen-updater switched to smart, an other package management system. I must say I still use zen-updater because I don't like to use a non-standard product for things I care little, but this is mostly lazilyness (I use 10.1) :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Le manuel d'optique de Lucien Dodin http://lesprismes.free.fr/optique/index.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org