Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Saturday 17 February 2007 4:26 am, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Deinstall zmd, zen-updater and rug and install zypper and
opensuse-updater instead - use YaST to do the install,
Why does opensuse come with things that need to be deinstalled and replaced
with different things? Shouldn't it be already set up with what works?
Is the quoted portion above the official recommended package management plan
for opensuse? What is the role of smart, if any?
Linux is made so :-). Many users, many personal histories... users
coming from other distribution like to find they prefered package
management programm :-)
Novell sell a management programm called Zenworks with it's SLES/SLED.
This programm is quite a nice piece of soft and Novell will probably
give it Opensource one time or an other. It begins by parts.
one year ago somebody had the (bad) idea to include in openSUSE the
zen-updater, a part of Zenworks. The idea was bad because the decision
was taken late (in the distro release cycle) and so the product bad
integrated and because this product have features may be usefull with
the hole zenworks, but of little use for us now. However these
features made it extremely slow.
Novells programmers did a quite good job making zen-updater may be 10x
faster than it was, but the result is still slow and over featured, so
openSUSE, with 10.3 is probably coming back to a dedicated update
system (opensuse-updater)
in the mean time, many people, tired of zen-updater switched to smart,
an other package management system.
I must say I still use zen-updater because I don't like to use a
non-standard product for things I care little, but this is mostly
lazilyness (I use 10.1) :-)
jdd
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