I've got a freshly-installed Suse 10 system. (Eval) There are a few things I want to add to the system (lineakd, lame, Opera 8.5, among others). I've been slowly learning more about Linux for a few years now, and for the last couple of years have been messing around with Suse 9.0 and Suse 9.1. My impression is that if I want to maintain the usability of Yast and RPM in general, I have to do all of my installs through them. In other words, if I choose to do an install manually somehow, like rpm from the command-line, Yast will no longer know what's what and will become undependable. If I install something via a script, or recompile something in to the kernel myself, than RPM won't have an accurate database and will be unusable. Is this a valid concern, or are the experienced among you shaking your heads and laughing at my ignorance? Thanks, Steve