Sounds like it would be a good idea to separate System installs from User installs, and still use the same installation mechanism, whether it be RPM, Deb, or Windows Installer. At any rate, Windows installers are more akin to something like the Loki installer under Linux. I disagree. Am I missing something? You can extract an rpm as a user and manually install it, but then it may as well be a.
And it was possibly the single intelligent idea within zmd, for which everything else was horribly, horribly wrong. The reason zmd and rcd needed to run as daemons is to enable system administrators to remotely manage the packages installed on the system which is the primary selling point of RCE and ZENworks , and because RPM typically requires root privileges, those daemons ran as root.
The fact that this allows normal users to do limited package management operations as decided by the administrator is a nice side effect of that. The backend is essentially an abstraction layer around the underlying package management system. Backends handle package management tasks as well as doing dependency resultion. The backend that zmd shipped with in ZENworks is heavily based on libredcarpet, the old standby from Red Carpet Enterprise, and it works pretty well.
To allow for these new concepts, SuSE wrote a new package management library called libzypp, which contains its own dependency resolver and handles package management in its own way. Fair enough, but it sort of underscores that zmd should not have been forklifted into Suse Totally agree.
I think a lot of what undermined that effort had to do with multiple groups all running in separate directions at once, and different people in the company having different ideas of what package management best-practices actually are. And like I said in the last post, zmd without libzypp works just fine. This is already possible using Windows Installer 4.
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