On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:51:50 -0700, Darren New wrote:

>>   The Yast2 software manager is enormously faster now, as they fixed
>>   the
>> problem in the earlier version (it always took several minutes to start
>> up because it downloaded and parsed a big bunch of XML files every
>> time).
> 
> Oh good. That was always a pain in the butt for me. Especially manually
> upgrading a dozen remote machines. Sheesh. :-)  Every time that started,
> I thought "what, can't they see they just downloaded that 5 minutes
> ago?"

Yeah, they changed to using packagekit for the software management piece, 
it seems.  I'm very happy with the performance....

Jim

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