On 2007-10-04 14:27:20 +0200, Igor Jagec wrote:
> On Čet, 2007-10-04 at 07:48 -0300, Gabriel wrote:
>
> > Cristian Rodriguez escribió:
> > >> First download all
> > >> packages (keeping them on a special location), and after finishing the
> > >> download, install them.
> > > that is called "transaction", I suspect that there is a good reason why
> > > it is not implemented the way you suggest.
> > If there is a good reason, I would like to know which is it.
>
> Me too. I must say I didn't figure what's the purpose of that approach.
> For instance, Yum also downloads all the packages first, then updates
> them. Since I'm still officially a Fedora user (I'll switch to openSUSE
> 10.3 over the weekend), I'm quite familiar with Yum. And the funny thing
> is that Fedora developers also don't like SmartPM very much.
than i just hope you dont run it on x86_64. if you do... you might want
to add
alias yum="yum --exclude=\*i586\*"
to your shell rc file. otherwise you will get a lot of crap installed on
your system.
in regards of biarch support zypper/yast still beats smart and yum.
darix
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