Most reviews - so far - of openSUSE 11.0 have been quite positive, but that doesn't automatically mean everybody is happy. TechReview offers some criticism of the latest offering from openSUSE. "openSUSE 11.0 is a difficult system to qualify. Highlights include good availability of current packages and YAST GUI configuration tools for some advanced features. However, these advantages are largely eclipsed by a chaotic, dysfunctional package management system and marginal performance. New Linux users with more complex network configurations or challenging hardware may be forced to use openSUSE due to its unique innovations in GUI system configuration. Yet, experienced and inexperienced users alike may find themselves increasingly frustrated by the grave lack of refinement in what is an otherwise capable Linux distribution."
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Member since:2008-02-26
Well, not according to the review. I haven't tried it yet so I won't say one way or the other, but if it really has no way of removing dead dependencies, I don't know how you can possibly think it is better than apt. Also, even if it could stand a comparison, if your mp3 packages have OpenOffice dependencies it won't do any good.
Member since:2006-05-11
The thing about apt is that it keeps a log (in my simplistic way of understanding it) of which packages were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for package A. Thenceforth, it recommends that you remove them if package A is no longer installed. This is not the same as finding "orphan" packages. For example, b43-fwcutter would be listed as an orphan package because as far as I know nothing depends on it. Yet, it may still be needed. Yet, apt would not recommend that it be autoremoved, because it was not automatically installed, but rather explicitly installed.
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2007-05-05
Not in the latest version -- in openSUSE 11.0 package management literally rocks. It's way more powerful and intelligent than APT, and is quicker since we've switched to LZMA rpm payload.