On Čet, 2007-10-04 at 14:40 +0200, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: > Dňa Thursday 04 October 2007 14:27:20 Igor Jagec ste napísal: > > 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. > The most important feature for download and install is that you can operate > under very restricted situations, e.g. disk and memory requirements. > I agree that on a running system, this is not the most effective approach. > What needs to be determined is to figure out how much space you can spare to > download the packages and this is not very easy to do. Just imagine a package > that will need to create a big new file in its post-install script (think > initrd for a new kernel). You can hardly predict, only to use heuristics.
Thanks for the answer. I'm surely gonna test it as soon as I totally switch to openSUSE 10.3, most likely over the weekend. Since I've never used unsupported tools for managing packages, I'm definitely gonna use Zypper on openSUSE. BTW what is the difference between 'zypper update' and 'zypper update -t package? Which one of these 2 commands is used by GNOME/KDE update applet? Is it possible for Zypper to remove packages if it doesn't met dependencies? I'm just asking that in case I decide to update my system manually :) Cheers! -- Igor Jagec
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