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Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
These are the reasons why I don't use YAST package manager: - Furthermore why does it have to refresh all repositories if you want only remove or check something? ACK. - You still can't change the order how repositories are processed (discussed elsewhere). - In the software manager takes forever to switch from one package group to the other. ACK. - In 10.2 the software manager always downloaded all the different package descriptor language files (xmls?) further slowing down refreshing. (I did not checked if it had changed in 10.3) This, at least, has changed in 10.3.
For this reason I use smart package manager. It's search function not as good as yast's but: - much easier to switch on and off repositories - one can choose by hand which repositories and when to refresh I agree ...
I started using smart exlusively in 10.2. I was hoping that in 10.3 I can switch back to YAST but unfortunately it is not polished enough. Same for me. Used yast on 10.3 until I got fed up ... back to smart, now.
Some more aspects: - yast uses an incredible amount of memory - about 256MB, it seems, with opensuse oss and non-oss ftp, and packman. On a virtual machine with 384MB RAM, it is ... noteable. - zypper tries to be a faster command line tool than the full yast ... unfortunately, it does not load the cache once when starting in shell mode, but reloads for ALL operations ... Just run "info wine" twice and see how it reloads the cache each time ... resulting in "top: VIRT 188m RES 151m" after some more calls of "info wine" in the same "zypper shell": VIRT 286m RES 247m not only needs a lot of time for re-loading the cache, it seems it does not free the memory used by the previous cache loads ... (talking about zypper-0.8.25-0.1) Without this, zypper might even be usable ... smart, on comparison, has VIRT 102m RES 64m *with* the cache loaded ...
Irrespectively of this openSUSE (all versions) is generally a very stable, reliable and easy to use linux system. ACK, again.
Yours, Sebastian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org