On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:03:29AM -0500, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 3:09 am, John Andersen wrote:
If the old SuSE YOU had to go, why not adopt one of the others and make it better rather than starting from scratch?
I'm still mystified why it had to go in the first place. What was wrong with it? Why throw out something that works and suddenly have no official package system for the distro? Replace it with making the users figure out what to use, zmd, zypper, apt, smart, who knows what else?
But it did not go away?
The old YAST Packagemanagement had problems handling: - more than 1 package repository (it was possible, but not really well) - updates with dependency changes / additions. - the updater did not check dependencies _at_all_
This has been a big step backward rather than forward.
No. Only the stability has been lacking, but featurewise it is a step forward.
Ciao, marcus
------------ But why couldn't those features have been added to the earlier QT Yast the same as you're doing with this new Mono thing? Even with the missing features, I know I, as well as many here, had good luck with it and certainly fewer problems than the present setup. I never felt the need to use anything else while it was there. I mean I understand Novell had to give Mono a reason for living, although I don't know why, but why couldn't it have been used as an alternative or for something else completely? I'm sure many of us feel like it was forced upon us and that is not such a good thing. regards, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org