Re: [opensuse] Stupid Updater and Stupid Installer - IMHO

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 11:43 +0200, Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no wrote:
Billie Erin Walsh skrev:
The official name is "Smart" but they definitely aren't "smart".

Time your self installing a small app like kibadock in
yast and in smart (from you start yast or smart to you close it.). In
smart I use less than 40 seconds. In yast I use 4min and 50 sec! And I
have 3500 mhz processor 3 GB ram box so don't say it's my hardware
either...

I've just upgraded from 9.3 to 10.2 and I've noticed that software
installation in YaST is *much* slower than it used to be. (I've removed
zmd).

I think this is largely because it is downloading the package lists
every time I use it, whereas before I think they only changed when I did
an update or refreshed the source. Is there some way to tell it *not* to
download the lists every time, and just do it when I tell it to (or
overnight or something)?

Cheers, Dave

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