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. This was already answered to some extent. Just one additional comment about installing software. For the most part, if you install a package using RPM (either via YaST or RPM) that package is maintained in the RPM database. However, there is no problem if you want to install software using tarballs. The main concern here is that when installing from tarballs,
On Saturday 22 October 2005 6:16 pm, Steve Jacobs wrote:
those packages are not in the RPM database.
(Note that you can build an RPM from a tarball).
The main concern with installing software outside of RPM is that RPM does
not know about it, and you need to be careful if you install the same
package with RPM at a later time.
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Jerry Feldman