Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 14:17 schrieb Klaus Kaempf:
* Marcel Hilzinger
[Nov 24. 2006 14:13]: Just a proposal for 10.3, as for 10.2 it's too late anyway:
I think the installation source module should not fetch any other data then the source name. It should just put the right info on the right place, like editing /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/yum/yum.d.repos/
When adding a repository, retrieving the metadata is the right thing to do to detect problems. If you start to download metadata when starting a package manager, errors will be quite confusing.
But why 90% of all package managers work the other way? With apt, smart, yum adding a source needs no internet connection and it's a matter of a second. Metadata is only loaded, when you want to install something. I don't see, why the YaST solution would be better, but feel free to convince me ;-)
Why? With the current solution, each time you launch the installation source module metadata is fetched.
This is wrong and we want to fix this for 10.3. Downloading (resp. refreshing) repository metadata should not be done when starting a software managment application.
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