Jan Tiggy escribió:
Cristian Rodriguez R. worte:
(zypper is actually a solution for a much worse issue.)
And which one would it be?
Zypper helps you to escape from the Zenworks problem, it is alternative replacement for rug. There is nothing wrong with rug itself (I think rug is a fine piece of software) but it has one major flaw, it uses the ZMD daemon . The zmd deamon is (in short) an unnecesary layer of complexity that causes more harm than good. Arghh.this has been discussed many, many times (it is becoming annoying) and the issue is mostly settled down in 10.3 where Zenworks is no longer in the default installation. Nowdays, instead of discussing about the problems of zenworks, we should spend our time more productively testing new libzypp and zypper versions. Ahh.. and "the plot against unnoficial packages" is just your imagination, there is no such thing in the reality.. what did you smoke to imaginate that ?? (just curious :-P ) About your comments of the lack of alternatives ... how this differs with other distributions ? 1. debian : you need to use APT, that is the supported package manager. 2. Fedora/redhat : YUM, any other thing is unnoficial 3. Ubuntu: APT and GUIs using it. So, with openSUSE, the supported way is zypp "based" tools,currenlty Yast PM GUI, or zypper in the command line. you still can use YUM or smart but that is not the official way.