Agree on YaST2. Never had a problem since 6.3 On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 16:41, Allen wrote:
YAST2 and Swaret (Slackware) are the two best package update utilities known to man. Don't kid yourself otherwise.
On Friday 10 September 2004 12:30, Mark Tinka wrote:
--- Eric Kahklen
wrote: The reason I mentioned apt-get was that from what I've read and heard, it provides a very consistent and stable package management system...
quite the contrary, i think.. i've had the opportunity to use apt-get earlier in the year, to upgrade my 8.2 laptop with some later packages.. it broke a lot of stuff in KDE.. including OpenOffice, MPlayer, Kmail e.t.c... i could go on..
for a production system, i wouldn't recommend apt.. while it looks attractive because the more recent packages, i'd prefer sticking with the updates SuSE have seriously audited and adapted for the current system you are running.. it's a huge risk to use apt for your production system.. the last thing you want running is the latest Linux-2.6 kernel unchecked by SuSE...
as for workstations, if you use Linux (and not vendor W) as your primary daily work tool, i wouldn't recommend apt either, except for very specific packages.. problem with apt is that it may have several dependencies that may cause the system to break..
use apt on a box you just play with, at home or something.. or maybe where it's built for, Debian.. i wouldn't touch it on my SuSE boxes..
Mark.
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