I'm sure this has been brought up once or twice - but nevertheless. I've been sort of getting used to working with rug, but it is INCREDIBLY slow, bordering on useless. Just now I was trying to install lzo and lzo-devel, and got the names wrong: # time rug install lzo lzo-devel Waking up ZMD...Done ERROR: 'lzo' is not available, or is fully up-to-date. real 6m40.581s user 0m2.132s sys 0m0.060s # time rug install lzo-devel Resolving Dependencies... The following packages will be installed: lzo-devel 2.02-10 (nfs://192.168.2.81/data1/suse-10.1/inst-source?alias=SUSE-Linux-10.1-FTP-10.1-0-20060525-100500) Transaction... 100% Transaction Finished real 7m16.141s user 0m27.074s sys 0m1.052s All in all, it took me 15min to install lzo-devel. /Per Jessen, Zürich