http://zonker.opensuse.org/2009/06/02/ark-linux-is-becoming-the-first-third-party-distro-other-than-opensuse-to-adopt-zypp-as-its-package-manager/ Shining a spotlight on the openSUSE Community Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:44:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://zonker.opensuse.org/2009/06/02/ark-linux-is-becoming-the-first-third-party-distro-other-than-opensuse-to-adopt-zypp-as-its-package-manager/comment-page-1/#comment-853 j.eng Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:14:19 +0000 http://zonker.opensuse.org/?p=383#comment-853 It's the only sane choice: * smart claimed that apt did not find all updates (due to its algorithm) * then, smart is terribly slow (the solve stage taking >45 mins on an older 933 MHz machine) * and overly memory-intensive (see Duncan's blog post) * referring to "breaking the interpreter" in the Ark post: it has happened to me; worth noting that you have to upgrade python (when SUSE moved 2.4->2.6) and its modules at once (but of course you could not have known that before, because dependencies were missing) * zypper seems the be the only one to consider a vendor change a hard barrier, protecting against 3rd-repo packages sneaking in (IMHO even more important than any of the other points) It’s the only sane choice:
* smart claimed that apt did not find all updates (due to its algorithm)
* then, smart is terribly slow (the solve stage taking >45 mins on an older 933 MHz machine)
* and overly memory-intensive (see Duncan’s blog post)
* referring to “breaking the interpreter” in the Ark post: it has happened to me; worth noting that you have to upgrade python (when SUSE moved 2.4->2.6) and its modules at once (but of course you could not have known that before, because dependencies were missing)
* zypper seems the be the only one to consider a vendor change a hard barrier, protecting against 3rd-repo packages sneaking in (IMHO even more important than any of the other points)

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