SuSE freeze fixed!

[Christoph Thiel]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

> > rpm-md support is already in smart, but it could benefit from some 
> > attention ;)
> 
> Can you please be more explicit?  What area needs attention?
> 
> If you're comparing the parsing speed of Smart with yum, don't do it. 
> yum doesn't do the work smart does while processing the metadata 
> information.

Yes, I was thinking of that very problem ;)


> rpm-md is an interesting alternative for being adopted in many projects, 
> but it has a very bad implementation if you want to quickly map the 
> filelist to and from the packages list. Unlike yum, Smart considers the 
> whole dependency graph to take a decision, and that means understanding 
> what are the available provided files, and who is providing them.
> 
> If that's not what you mean, please speak clearly so that we can figure 
> it out.


Regards
	Christoph