Dňa Ut 30. Máj 2006 10:57 Pascal Bleser napísal: > Marcus Meissner wrote: > >> One question we have is how the new tools rug, zen-updater and zmd > >> compare to what we had before with YaST Online Update and > >> suseWatcher. We are interested in every feedback ranging from > >> architecture, design or used standards and their enhancements. > > > > It should be possible to disable and remove the whole ZMD stuff > > and still be able to work from commandline. > > Indeed. > rug is hardwired to ZMD though, AFAIK. > > What's the added value of ZMD on 10.1, given that the resolver engine > is in zypp anyway ? > > The only advantage of having ZMD is to be able to manage SL 10.1 > instances from Zenworks (for which you have to buy licenses from > Novell). Or is there anything else ? > > If that's the only real advantage, I consider it a pretty high price > to pay, because it's a rather useless daemon running on the system. > At the very least, it should be optional (and turned off on every SL > installation when you didn't buy Zenworks). > > Though another point is that rug mandates ZMD. > Unfortunately rug is the only CLI tool to install packages on 10.1 > (well, there's y2pmsh, which works but... it's the old engine ;)). > > > Other question: is there any particular reason for yast2 to use zypp > directly instead of talking to ZMD [1] ? > > [1]http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/7/78/Package-management-in-code10. >png > > IMHO, it looks like either > a) it's a hack > b) it's necessary because there's no way to have yast2 talk to ZMD > because ZMD is implemented with Mono > c) both ;)
No, see Duncan's post and mine: ZMD is optional component and YaST needs a way to install packages in a restricted environment during the installation. Stano --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
