Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1839 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2010-08-24 16:53, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> * Ilya Chernykh () [20100824 00:49]:
>
> > > Much less ambitioned projects (naming just YaST as example) have
> > > failed before, why should this succeed?
> >
> > Can you please clarify, what do you mean?
>
> I was refering to the original version of YaST aka YaST1 which was a text
> mode only application. When SuSE replaced it by YaST2, there was a loud
> outcry from those that prefered YaST1. So some people took the YaST1 sources
> and startet a sourceforge project to keep YaST1 alive. And guess what? The
> project never got farther than its creation.

I remember.

Probably because yast2 quickly got most its problems solved, so there was 
really no need for yast1
for long. But for some time the distro had to keep both yast1 and yast2, as 
some features or modules
had not been ported (yet).

> That's what I expect to happen to this KD3 fork.

That will depend on how long it takes to "finish" kde4 >:-P

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith))