Since upgrading from 10.0 to 10.1, every time I want to do anything that involves adding or removing packages with Yast2, zmd wants to get involved. For instance, bringing up "yast2 sw_single" will get zmd running with the following command line: /usr/lib/zmd/query-system /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db ...and it will take literally two or three minutes for the program to come up to the package selection screen. In the meantime, CPU utilization goes up to 2+ according to top, and the system is dog slow. Since nobody else has complained here about it, I figure it must have something to do with my system. This zmd stuff hammers my system so bad that I am considering downgrading back to 10.0. Why do we need zmd, and how is it an improvement over the 10.0 way of doing things? Michael -- San Francisco, CA