Bryan Tyson wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:18 -0800, Ben Kevan wrote: > > >> IMO SuSE is a great distro and is only getting more mature with Novell's >> growing experience in the Open Source market. >> I myself run SLED 10 and OpenSuSE 10.2 (and previously 9.2, 9.3, 10.0 and >> even >> the crippled 10.1). >> So what were your reasons >> > > I have only one reason: the excruciatingly slow package management > system. Overall, OpenSuse is very nice. However, it does not matter how > nice it is if one must wait half an hour or an hour every time one does > anything with packages. In my opinion, if the package system is > unusable, the distro is unusable. > > Strange, I used Suse from 6.0-9.2 and the package system was great for > all those years. Why did the developers decide it had to be changed? Do > they not realize how much worse it is than it used to be, and worse than > practically every other distro? > > Bryan > > Under 10.1 I have to agree you are right. But under 10.2 opensuse, the package manager runs pretty quick most of the time. My only problem is that I have to open so many repositories and in competiton with so many users.
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