On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:50:34 +0100, MaD dUCK wrote: | 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? Both package management and adminstration. | 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. You are right about that. At least partly. Maybe it is also a matter of taste, I'm not sure. For instance, the /etc/permissions.* files for dealing with security I find it really neat. OTOH, networking configs can use a brush up. Multiple PPP definitions is not done easily. Let's conclude SuSE has moved a lot of logic from config files to scripts. And maybe *that* is the pain point here. -- Koos Pol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S.C. Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available