zypper seems to be a good choice.

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 6/17/2010 11:36 PM, Aleksi Suomalainen wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to get some clarification about the package management
>> scheme in MeeGo:
>>
>> * Why are Yum and Zypper both used? (at least in 1.0 that is)
>>
>>
>
> because we wanted to give zypper a try, but also want to keep the solid
> fallback yum in place.
>
>  * What are their roles?
>>
>>
>
> they from the backend of packagekit; packagekit is the component that
> abstracts the actual implementation
> of the package downloader/installer from the rest of the system
>
>  * Would you think that upstream versions of both will be used in MeeGo
>> or will there be some new functionalities or additions?
>>
>>
>
> I doubt that in the short term we'll do anything exciting meego specific. I
> have some research ideas I'd like to get
> done but that's somewhat more long term (if I can get resources, for 1.2)
>
>
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