3) Until the major issues are solved, there are a few alternatives to YaST2/zypp/ZMD you can use on SUSE Linux 10.1 (and older versions). If you want something that works well, now, use those. Martin gave a few of the options. Let me summarize again (and note that all of those are included with SL 10.1, either on the media or on the FTP tree):Its more or less sumarized here
http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Management
