https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215649 ------- Comment #10 from danielstefanmader@web.de 2006-10-28 09:38 MST ------- Hello, I very much agree that this is an interesting topic. But I strongly recommend to go much further: if there is one thing in a Linux distribution that _really_ counts, then it is the package management system. I can have KDE in many distributions along with modern and user-friendly hotplugging systems and intuitive networking tools so that this is not what will keep users to keep up with this crazy system squeezed into the latest SUSE. I am a heavy user of SUSE and I like this distro more than any other mainly because of YaST (which comes in handy even for me as a somewhat more-than-average user every now and then). But since apt4rpm was out for SUSE -- and btw. never officially supported or recommended -- I have never again used the YAST package management module. Later, with 10.1, I switched to smart and thus have completely ignored all that zmd mess... Whenever I talk to other Linux users it is *almost always* the lack of an officially supported powerful, flexible and user-friendly package management and updating mechanism in SUSE that makes power users stick to Debian-style distros, Fedora and the others. My question is: why not become sensible at last and support something like smart out of the box and with a reasonable channel list provided right away? It has a GUI available (and even a tray applet!) and I cannot imagine that it is impossible to make the YAST frontend use smart in background, too. Honestly, it really sucks to have several package managers in parallel and to quickly have the feeling to have left the path of stability once the first smart upgrade with external repositories (and be it only the multimedia and KDE channels) was done. OpenSUSE should be a community distro and the one essential thing that a community distro usually features seems to be completely ignored here (yes: it's a working, powerful and central package manager). I have always disliked those "external YaST repositories" since there was no CLI for this (and since the concept simply is a PITA) and I am totally baffled to hear that SUSE Linux is still ages away from what e.g. Debian has ever since it was released in the first place. This is not good at all but a real and enormous threat to the future of SUSE Linux. I would assume that the SUSE labs should make this topic *a priority* and not wait until anybody complains. There might no one be left to complain. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.