* Praise (praisetazio@tiscalinet.it) [20100828 18:20]:
I am using the packages from 11.2, but I really WANT SCPM back. I hope that if we are many, scpm packages will be released again.
There are packages available in the openSUSE buildservice. It's just that scpm's developer left Novell and nobody else is interested in maintaining it anymore as the (perceived) user base seems too small. Just a quick note, as this issue is also close to my heart. The user
Hello Philipp, Philipp Thomas wrote: base for SCPM may be small, but in my opinion, it's one of only 2 elements that made the specificity of SuSE, now OpenSuSE: SCPM and YaST. The way I see it, if you remove those, OpenSuSE is "just another Linux distro". I, for one, would gladly create a bug in Novell's Bugzilla to ask for a return of SCPM. When you often move between networks (which is my case: home, office, customer sites), SCPM is the *only* way to keep a fully working config in all cases (by fully working config, I mean with email, printing, etc.). Just my 2¢ Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com <http://www.iba-worldwide.com>