Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> One question we have is how the new tools rug, zen-updater and zmd >> compare to what we had before with YaST Online Update and >> suseWatcher. We are interested in every feedback ranging from >> architecture, design or used standards and their enhancements. > > It should be possible to disable and remove the whole ZMD stuff > and still be able to work from commandline. > > For this is missing: > > - commandline installation source management (installation_sources equiv.) > - commandline package installation (basically the yast -i pkg thing) > - commandline online update (online_update equiv.)
I think the question here is even greater: Do we really need a daemon? Pros: + daemon helps with remote management + is fast (not the case with zmd if zmd is sleeping) Cons: + needs resources running (zmd needs less resources if it's sleeping) What else? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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