-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-01-07 at 01:20 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote: ...
In Gentoo and Debian, the package managers first get all the packages and only when they have them, they start to install. in OpenSuse the package manager downloads one package, installs, then downloads the next, installs, etc.
Why does zypper work that way, in contrast to emerge and aptitude?
It saves disk space. The devs chose that strategy as they could have chosen the other. You'd have to ask them to know the whys. Personally, I'd like to be able to choose strategy.
Also what happens when one package depends on another but one of them fails to download when the other is already installed?
Good grief! :-} It will have to keep using the old version, I suppose. That's one reason I prefer to use the old upgrade via dvd method, although I use zypper dup for factory. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklj+ksACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UN4gCfUhlUz91sFZgfzMKg/nZXSFAZ /0EAnAif6yD01+gt07+Dvg/eze31z8qK =0VdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org