Den Saturday 21 April 2007 19:35:36 skrev Christian Jäger: > I think it would spare many users a lot of annoyance if updates went a > little more quickly and silently. I can just about understand that any > time I want to install a package, YaST refreshed all > installation-sources (though this is also debateable - wouldn't one > update a day suffice?); but if the opensuse-updater (or zen-udpater) has > recently reported an updateable package, why does YaST have to check the > installation-source again? It certainly doesn't need to check _all_ > installation sources IMHO. This is a real waste of time. > > See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=266864.
I agree with your general point. But the problem is not the downloading of updated metadata, which usually takes a few seconds tops. What's taking so long is parsing the metadata. If you disable auto-refresh for your sources it would still take quite a long time because it would still need to parse it all. This is being addressed for 10.3 by adding a binary cache that means metadata will only be parsed once, and not on every start of the package manager. I think the work being done on the parsing-part is sufficient to solve the base problem - very slow YOU startup. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
