Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Alexander Klayman <aklayman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 18 May 2002 01:44, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
> * Brian Durant; <durant@xxxxxxxxxx> on 18 May, 2002 wrote:
> >I thought that I would start this thread so that list members can express
> >what they like and think needs to be improved with the SuSE interface.
> > While I am using 7.3 Pro and not 8, I know that there are some things
> > that haven't changed that much. Here I am thinking in particular of YAST
> > 2. As YAST 2 from version 8 on is the only SuSE package management
> > interface, I would like to suggest that the wish list could start here.
> > In particular, there are two areas:
>
> regardless of the interface in my opinion SuSE package maintainers
> either merge the change log in to the RPM or the Quality control
> department understands that if there is a new RPM with a bigger version
> or the new so called patched RPM they incorporate a change log so people
> like me who issue a rpm -q --changelog package will be able to see the
> changes.

I just want to add that I am very impressed with Yast2 in suse8.  I think suse 
has done a great job as this is the most stable and useful application I know 
of in linux.  So, if criticism is gonna surface, let's make sure we give 
credit where it is due.