if you turn your software sources to not refresh, then it won't check them.
On 10/5/07, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Saturday 2007-10-06 at 02:34 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: > > > On 10/6/07, Carlos E. R. <> wrote: > >> If the intention is to remove the menu reference, the package manager is > >> not needed. If the intention is to remove an application from disk, then > >> yes, you need the full package manager, which should then check whether > >> that will break dependencies. > > > > In case of package removal, does it also need to check the on-line > > repositories? Because that is what it seems to be doing (forgive me if > > I'm mistaken). It does take a while, especially for something that > > users might expect to be a quick and painless operation. > > Yes, it seems an overkill. I think it should be enough to check the cache, > but I read comments that it was not optimized, that it tries to download > it too often. They are working on improving it... for suse 11. > > You can use a network activity applet to see if it really downloads the > database. > > - -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 > > iD8DBQFHBuJ7tTMYHG2NR9URAvUtAJ0WqWkswmz2hoZIVN7fxxQARjXtgwCdHoVb > j/m6+h7J/Llnp0/DzBNGZks= > =ms/Y > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- cheers, dg <a href="http://opensuse.org";><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 80px; height: 15px;" alt="openSUSE.org" title="openSUSE.org" src="http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/6/6e/Suselinux-green.png"; /></a> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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