Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Curtis Rey <crrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Repeat post:

Im here rummaging around the /supplementary/kde dirs and it has become 
"painfully" apparent that the exclusion of YaST1 is problematic at best.  
Just trying to figure out which packages are need to be updated is a pain in 
the ars.  I have to type "rpm -qv <package name> " into the console and then 
compare the output to the listings in the directory in order to figure out if 
this package is A) installed in the 1st place and B) if so, what version I 
have compared to the ones in the ftp site.  

I "STRONGLY" recommend that this issue be addressed.  Having YOU as the only 
means of check for updates is woefully inadequate IMHO.  Or is it perhaps 
that YaST1 was discontinued for the reason of discouraging most from 
accessing the directory in large numbers of users - I would think not, I 
strongly doubt that SuSE's desire is to make access to these packages 
difficult.  However, I find this is the case, insofar the updating packages 
is become extremely labourious and time consuming.  

The only other rationale is to install and configure "apt-get".  Unfortunately 
this will also be time comsuming, and I fear labourious as well.  I foresee 
many posts to the list in the meanwhile, both from those experiencing similar 
frustrations, and from myself while bringing the program "apt-get" upto a 
functional status. 

For those from SuSE that monitor the list post.  Please inform the Product 
development department of these concerns.  The feature I mentioned in YaST1 
is sorely missed.  

Respectfully, Curtis