Robert Lewis
I would very much like to hear more from the SUSE developers on their future plans to resolve the many issues raised in this forum about the slowness and other issues of the Updater mechanism.
Do you speak about opensuse-updater or zen-updater?
For example: A) Do we have a buy in from the developers that the issues are real and worthy of fixing?
Which issues exactly? I know of some but I'll not sign up to this generic statement.
B) That the mechanism is way to slow often taking an hour or tmore to install one rpm
It's too slow -and this is one of the areas we will work for 10.3 on.
C) That the current mechanism hides the complexity of the process from the user not providing good feedback as to what is happening. Maybe this is ok, but when things go wrong most people don't know what to do.
Do you have an example?
D) If design changes or major fixes are going to take place in a future release would the developers be willing to provide us with some hopeful words describing what they intend to do.
Btw. one of the developers will talk at FOSDEM about this: http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/events/opensuse_zypp "In this talk this technologies will be presented among the current integration of them into the products, the problems faced during the transition and the current roadmap for the future releases.", Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126