Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com>
Feature #305144, revision 1, last change by
Title: [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool
openSUSE-11.1: New
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Hi All !
I Have very good new idea: converting Yast into a Linux learning tool.
This is very simple to achieve: Yast must show the commands it executes and files it modifies, in a nice GUI dialog.
It will allow all kinds of Linux users understand how things really work. Enable learn new things or remind how old-but-forgotten things work for seasoned people.
Great, isn't it ?
P.S. Jay Vollmer recommends, that among the commands that Yast shows as it executing, it should also recommend "man pages" for the relevant underlying commands.
-- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008.
Discussion:
#1: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> (2008-07-29 12:09:11)
Rajko M. wrote:
If one wants to see what is gong on in background, than look at logs in realtime. There is console (Konsole) and command tail. Run as root:
tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log
and then start YaST and play with.
-- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008.
#2: Jerry Houston <jerry.houston(a)comcast.net> (2008-07-29 15:41:34)
Sounds like a great way for new users to learn more about what's under the hood. Or, what's under the bonnet, for the Brits.
#3: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis(a)novell.com> (2008-07-31 07:11:21)
Moving to maintainers to decide.
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Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell)
Feature #305737, revision 1, last change by
Title: remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
There are requests to remove the warning about a missing swap device from the expert partitioner for systems with only SSDs. I want to go one step further and remove the warning altogether since RAM has increased so much in the past.
Relations:
- proposal for SSD (novell/bugzilla/id: 467874)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467874
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Feature added by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com>
Feature #305640, revision 1, last change by
Title: Replace gnomesu by something more modern
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
gnomesu is kind of obsolete and unmaintained.
In the world of PolicyKit, we could use the new PolicyKit-aware gksu, or the adminkit stuff done by Rodrigo.
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Feature added by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com>
Feature #305548, revision 1, last change by
Title: YaST-Qt: More informative "Installation Summary"
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
The YaST Qt package manager should provide as much information in the "Installation Summary" view as zypper, esp the overall download size to expect and how much disk space will be freed/used after performing the operation.
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Feature added by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com>
Feature #305305, revision 1, last change by
Title: 1-click uninstall
openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
An easy way to remove Software! For example: you installed an application with "1-click install" (which will install all the packages that you need), there should be an easy way (also with 1 click) to remove what you have installed with that 1-click operation... in another words: an "1-click Uninstall" to remove installed software (dependencies and packages included).
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Feature added by: Martin Schlander (cb400f)
Feature #305664, revision 1, last change by
Title: Server CD
openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Martin Schlander (cb400f)
Description:
Providing an official openSUSE server cd - with some often used server software - and perhaps a lightweight window manager like icewm or similar - would be a great thing for a number of reasons. - openSUSE is generally considered a desktop centric distribution, providing a server cd would do a heck of a lot to highligt the excellent (home-)server qualities of openSUSE. - The few people that realize that the openSUSE DVD/netinstall actually offers text mode/server installation, are often discouraged by needing to download a full DVD, or do troublesome and slow http/ftp installation. - Server users are generally more technical people, it would be beneficial to attract more of these to the openSUSE project. - More people using openSUSE on home servers would likely have spill-over effects on SLES sales. - An openSUSE server cd, would be an excellent response to Ubuntu server edition and Microsoft Home Server.
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Feature added by: Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar(a)novell.com>
Feature #305582, revision 1, last change by
Title: Off-Line one click install (MSI for Linux)
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar(a)novell.com>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Idea from community member Raul Romero.
Same concept as MSI packages for Windows but exploiting the One Click Install concept of openSUSE (and therefore inheriting the simplicity, code and security.
Basically a compressed file which includes a repository inside, plus one click install information, and a script to trigger the oneclickinstall handler with the data as payload in the script. Therefore is a collection of rpms that can be installed
detailed description is here http://en.opensuse.org/OSI
There is already a prototype working. Example script: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/363315/MozillaFirefox.osi
This requires some extra features in one click install and other pieces
* ability to force OneClick to add the repo (the one inside the compressed file)
Additionally I see other features:
* ability to suggest an update repo for the installed bundle
* support from build service to generate bundles
* easy way to generate them locally
Out of scope but interesting:
* Ablity to trigger a YaST workflow (its own control.xml?)
Business case (Partner benefit):
openSUSE.org: This solves the business case of distributing service packs, applications, codecs bundles by just downloading a big file, 100% offline, supporting dependencies and repo signatures.
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Feature added by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com>
Feature #305556, revision 1, last change by
Title: rpm -q --whatrecommends foobar
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
For debugging purporses why a package is installed it would be nice to have a "--whatrecommends" query option for rpm and not only "--whatrequires".
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Feature added by: Marius Tomaschewski <mt(a)novell.com>
Feature #305356, revision 1, last change by
Title: 802.1x authentication on wired network using YaST via wpa_supplicant
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Marius Tomaschewski <mt(a)novell.com>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Some networks using 802.1x authentication on metallic Ethernet and I think it would be cool have a possibility, handle this connection type using YaST.
The major problem to support this is that the wpa_supplicant is in /usr/sbin; it seems also to be difficult to move it to /sbin because of all the libs the wpa_supplicant is using.
What would be required, is to extent the "supported_on_localfs" function to check this and start the interface in remotefs flow when 802.1x is enabled. That is, using remotefs on 802.1x authenticated interfaces would be not possible -- same as with NetworkManager.
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