SMART Installing
I have decided to give SMART a chance on my openSUSE machine. YaST has been working fine, it is just remarkably slow when it first starts up. It has to load all the dependencies, foreign package source info files, etc, and can take three or four minutes to start up. I suppose I should follow my usual maxim and not try to fix something that isn't broken, because beside the slow start up time, I haven't been able to break YaST, and I'm usually pretty good at breaking application installers. So to complain about a 3 minute startup delay seems to be looking a gift horse in the mouth.
So that makes three package managers available with openSUSE - YaST is the standard one, ZMD is the new "corporate" one and SMART is the third party "better faster smaller" one. Zmd is the ZENworks Management Daemon, introduced as the default installer in 10.1, much to the chagrin of many. It remained the default in 10.2 but it seems in the latest news for 10.3, ZMD will be dropped in favor of getting YaST working better.
At its core, openSUSE uses RPMs as its packages, and these other things are just nice front ends to the remarkably complex flexible RPM command:
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openSUSE should adopt SMART...
...because it's so much less clunky than YaST. So is YUM, for that matter. But the best idea would be to do what PCLinuxOS did, and adopt apt/Synaptic.