As well as being a lot faster than apt, the biggest advantage of openSUSE package management stack to me is that it plays nicely with third party vendors. Pac

As well as being a lot faster than apt, the biggest advantage of openSUSE package management stack to me is that it plays nicely with third party vendors. Packages have sticky-vendors, so you only get updates from the same vendor unless you choose to switch. Even if another the update is in a different package repository. This means you don't get flip-flopping package vendors when the same package is available from two vendors and they release updates one after each other. Another example is the tooling around package/repository signing - Letting the user decide whom to trust without making them jump through hoops to manually import keys. There's also a lot of things in the packaging itself designed to help support third party vendors. Dependencies tend to be configured with capabilities rather than package names. e.g. The kernel provides information about the binary api version which third party drivers can depend on. Third party kernel modules can also supplement/enhance (soft dependencies - inverse recommends/suggests) specific PCI ids so the solver will suggest installing them if available and compatible with your hardware. In my view debian package management "just works" because the set of packages is carefully curated and tested, there's a high standard of package quality, and everything is available in one place. PPAs can present problems. The rpm distro ecosystem philosophy is somewhat different. It's impractical to expect a single organisation to package all the software you will ever need, so let's provide tools to help software from multiple vendors to get along.