On 2018-06-15 17:09, Liam Proven wrote:
On 15/06/18 16:51, Felix Miata wrote:
I find using apt/deb yum/dnf incomprehensibly difficult compared to zypper. e.g.
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I think this boils down to personal preference and familiarity. When I switched away from SUSE, Zypper didn't exist yet. I am not yet at home with it.
But all my supplementary repos are set at priority 99. There's no real logical priority between them; apparently that is a user issue. I.e., do it yourself. IMHO that's bad.
Just choose the priority...
I get nagged a lot about whether I want to "upgrade" a package to a lower version number, because Zypper seems only to look at the 1st value after the decimal point. IMHO that's bad.
I get asked a number of questions whenever I do a large upgrade -- is it OK to do these supplementary packages? Are you sure you want to continue *after* it's downloaded 500 packages over 15min. I get nagged about VirtualBox packages every single time. I don't want this stuff. I don't care. I want a "do it and don't ask again" option.
I get nagged about vendor changes. If it's newer, I want it to just install it. Don't ask me. Do it.
Then enable vendor change. The default is "no", and for good reasons. I want "no". Yes, there is a command line option to enable it.
I get told it won't install upgrades *because* of vendor changes. I don't care. Just do it. No I do *not* want to go and edit a config file; I expect a command to do that. No, manually instructing it to do each one individually by copy-and-pasting a command is not a good alternative.
When I remove stuff, I get a screenful of errors about X will break Y, Y will break Z and Z will break X. That is cyclical: remove the lot. Don't hassle the user. Decide.
Remove the kernel. Just do it. Borked system. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)