2007/10/4, Stanislav Visnovsky
The most important feature for download and install is that you can operate under very restricted situations, e.g. disk and memory requirements.
I agree that on a running system, this is not the most effective approach. What needs to be determined is to figure out how much space you can spare to download the packages and this is not very easy to do. Just imagine a package that will need to create a big new file in its post-install script (think initrd for a new kernel). You can hardly predict, only to use heuristics.
I agree, but it could be an option (where the user configures the repos) to choose what method will be used. There's no need to remove the actual behavior, but adding a new one an let the user select which want to use. Best regards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org