(In reply to Josef Reidinger from comment #2) > What is reason to use zast? We decided that it do not make much sense to > keep such backward stuff so long. s/backward/functional/. The reason is the same it has always been: when working with different machines, some with a QWERTZ keyboard layout, one will inevitably end up typing 'zast' instead of 'yast'. In zypper, the alternative form "yzpper" was introduced recently.