On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:50, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Anders,
On Thursday 26 August 2004 14:25, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:23, Dave O'Reilly wrote:
Another quick question....
if SuSE find that this is a bug in their release of KDE3.3 and subsequently fix it and do another release into the ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/...../supplent/KDE/yast-source directory. Will YAST online update realise that this source has changed and notify me that there's a new version available, or will I have to check manually and perform a manual update?
online update won't look at your supplementary sources
He asked about YaST Install and Remove, not YOU.
I'm sorry, I guess I was fooled by his use of the words "will YAST online update realise....."
Use something saner, like red carpet or apt instead of yast to update your kde. It's just much easier.
You keep suggesting the great superiority of red carpet or apt, but you never say why. I've seen some indications of problems from people who've gone the apt route. In general, I need some pretty compelling reasons to abandon the software configuration management supplied by the vendor of the distribution I'm using. And I have concerns about how well such alternatives would integrate with other system software. After all, installation support and configuration management are a good bit of the value added by a commercial distribution.
If I was a hardcore do-it-yourselfer (as regards my Linux installation, specifically), then I'd build everything myself and ignore the distributions, but that's not how I want to spend my time...
Tell you what: install it on a hobby machine and give it a spin, then get back to me. Red Carpet is three rpms, no configuration needed. Just give it a try