* scsijon-tpg (scsijon@tpg.com.au) [020508 15:51]:
about how YaST2 has more features then YaST ever had.... the liars. Keep it up SuSE, and you won't have any customers left in a few years. If, as they say, YAST1 is uneconomical to maintain alongside YAST2, then Open Source it and let us maintain it ourselves !
You have the source code, get to work then. If you went to the board (who make all of these decisions and don't read read SLE) with a complete of yast1 to 8.0 you'd have a much more persuasive argument for GPLing it.
:suse 8.0 so how are we supposed to install rpms in a batch now yast1 is gone :(
The same way yast1 did? 'rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm'
Please send your complaints about this to feedback@suse.de sent a note - :( and get no answer!
You expect a personal response from mail to feedback@suse.com? Do you have any idea how much mail received there?
From the number of people screaming over it's loss (including me), i'm sure there are enough people that would work on it, enhance it to do everything Yast2 can do in text mode, include the ability to handle the other linux versions file package formats, then as others see what it can do give it the ability to be useable by other Linux Versions, then spread it across the Linux world as a cross platform standard.
Or maybe that's what SuSE are afraid of and that's why they won't.
Oh please, YASC....yet another SuSE conspiracy. As I said, port it to 8.0 and you'll have a much better argument. -- -ckm