Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

Andreas Hanke wrote:

And of course the same point with the installation system applies here as well: A curses based package manager is needed to install SUSE Linux on systems where the hardware doesn't allow YaST to run in GUI mode. ;) Therefore it needs to be maintained anyway.

and this is not secondary. Many servers hardware are ridiculous as of video board and don't allow large screens/high colors (I Have seen some HP/compac servers with 2Mb video cards, 800x600x256 max) yast in GUI is not so pleasant there (not to mention VNC is not as good as full ssh) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos