In summary:
* Lightnight-fast package management now (using SAT solver, and SOLV metadata)
* Low memory usage
* Very intelligent solver (unlike apt)
* LZMA payload for RPMs, meaning RPMs are now even smaller (faster to download), and faster to decompress (faster to install), where nearly all other distributions are using bzip2.
* Very featureful CLI tool (for example, install remote/local RPMs)
* 1-Click-Install
And of course RPM still has other advantages such as being biarch compatible, which the Debian package management system still can't handle.
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Re: openSUSE's Brockmeier sees distro coming into its own
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 90.203.105.15] on June 15, 2008 11:24 PMIn summary:
* Lightnight-fast package management now (using SAT solver, and SOLV metadata)
* Low memory usage
* Very intelligent solver (unlike apt)
* LZMA payload for RPMs, meaning RPMs are now even smaller (faster to download), and faster to decompress (faster to install), where nearly all other distributions are using bzip2.
* Very featureful CLI tool (for example, install remote/local RPMs)
* 1-Click-Install
And of course RPM still has other advantages such as being biarch compatible, which the Debian package management system still can't handle.
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