* Kevin McLauchlan;
what you mean about "system wide" versus "only available in my $PATH"?
I thought "in my $PATH" meant available from anywhere... system wide.
No I have my own executables in my own $HOME/bin and $HOME/sbin Like I use Apache FOP and I have the development version and the stabele version they reside in my $HOME/devel directory and the executables reside in $HOME/sbin/fop.sh and $HOME/sbin/fop-dev.sh So If my wife by even she want to access FOP for her it does not exist. For example building RPMS I use *build* which is running in chroot so there is no risk of doing a nasty thing doing the compile phase
whatever version of KDE is on the DVD (or on the CDs, if my Pioneer 116 DVD drive still doesn't boot... ahem.... and then, I'd take whatever YOU coughed up for updates... until the time when one of the many broken things on my system (there are multiple broken things each and every install, since 6.whatever when I started with SuSE) can be fixed by newer KDE (according to some guru or three, on this list, and my lack of sleep which will impair my judgement).
What I do is I rsync the updates directory and then build the PATCH CD so I install the new version then use the "PATCH CD UPDATE" option and use the one I created no worrries about if it is not going to pass thru the firewall or if the download will be cut due to over traffic at the servers or etc.
In other words, by taking the initiative to bypass YaST/YOU for one app, am I defacto abandoning it and condemning myself to do ALL updates by hand? I ask this because I know that YaST writes to config files (or sets up what will be written when SuSEConfig is run??) in a number of places, and it seems logical that it might overwrite hand-written edits "for my own good", the next time it's run.
Not necesarrily if you play the game according to the rules that everything should be safe and You can continue using YaST and SuSEconfig and they will obey the "master admin".
3D acceleration, with Java versus Javascript... with... name it. And my clock still refuses to keep proper time, even though it's correct in bios... aaaaaaaaaaah!
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