just a couple of questions?
how do you guys deal with opensuse when the yast installer gets funny? i mean i tried to install java jdk, and vlc, but to my surprise everytime i wanted to install a single application , a massive 500MB update appeared along with the 2 applications i wanted to install, then i tried the command line to just install one program, and got rep. errors , and several .lock errors at the command line. after hours of googling i gave up , this distro was recommended because of great laptop support, but it's a hell of trying to install a single program, with fedora i just did su -c 'yum install vim' , or ubuntu sudo apt-get install vim or slackware: installpkg vim.tgz ,
but opensuse was so bloated whenever i wanted to install a program or two. it is a royal pain to install anything in opensuse

so how do you guys deal with dependency hell in opensuse?

Install Arch.

But, really, zypper and yast should be relatively straightforward to use. What is this 500 MB update? Is it a list of dependencies, perhaps?

As for opensuse having great laptop support, distros are really pretty comparable, with some exceptions. All the main distros configure their kernels to support a wide array of hardware. Outside of issues of differing free/nonfree software support, if it works in one it should work in another.

Hi -

For the most part, there *shouldn't* be a huge number of dependencies. I guess you were just "lucky" for the one or two packages you tried to install

"Updates" are a separate issue, of course. And updates CAN be huge ... and CAN intefere with simple installs.

OpenSuSE makes it hard to turo-off auto-updates (so you only have to update when you WISH to!). Check out this thread for details on how to proceed:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...10-3-a-697709/