Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 05 November 2006 13:48, Andreas Hanke wrote:
> Claes Bäckström schrieb:
> > Yes it's possible to do in gconf. So it's simple to change. But for me
> > it's a deeper question. What is the "supported" way to install
> > software in openSUSE?
>
> YaST2 sw_single and Zen-Installer are equally supported. (Well, if you
> ask me, shipping two tools that do basically the same thing in
> fundamentally different ways isn't the smartest thing to do in the first
> place, but that's just a personal opinion.)

Don't forget opensuse-installer (like zmd-installer except it uses libzypp 
directly instead of zmd)

> This is not so simple to decide. Zen-Installer supports the zmd
> permissions system so that people can use it without the root password
> on configured systems. This is a plus of Zen-Installer.

This is something that should be added to opensuse-installer.

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