also sprach Koos Pol (on Mon, 08 Jan 2001 04:05:31PM +0100):
I am an experienced Unix admin on various platforms and SuSE's YaST is one of the best configuration tools I have seen around. And this is because it keeps track of huge amounts of dependendies (with dependencies being the price to pay for using a distribution i.s.o compiling the stuff yourself) Don't want to trade it for RedHat's junk even if they threw money with it. Do whatever you want to do but I think you're insane.
are we talking package management or administration here? because package management (even though i prefer tarballs) is very nicely done. but administration i find is not. and packages don't prevent you from compiling. for the rpm binary, two of the most frequently used flags in my case are "-i --nodeps". but in terms of administration, it might be one of the best tools around, but it still doesn't beat or even approximate configuring with text files. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- "this week dragged past me so slowly; the days fell on their knees..." -- david bowie