Actually I think that Suse should lighten the load with Kde most people do not need all the crap that comes with KDE and if necessary just have it in a repository , FreeBSD has a kde lite which is quite good. With open suse I guess legal issues still affect what software can or cannot be included , but a standard list of YAST sources such as packman ect should be included but disabled , this would be great for newbies who want to install software but don't know how. -----Original Message----- From: John Abbott [mailto:john@abbotts-r.us] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 1:10 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Whishlist El Miércoles, 10 de Agosto de 2005 17:55, houghi escribió:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:30:18PM +0200, Víctor Fernández Martínez wrote:
No, please. YaST is doing fine, why change to APT?
For all the software out there that is not included in SUSE itself, like playing DVD's, wmdrawer, ccze, Even with the amount of software available with each distro, there will always be some things that will NOT be included and that a user would like.
I have had little or no trouble getting anything I wanted installed on 9.3 However there are occasions where I need to revert to the command line. One of the greatest strengths of SuSE is YaST and I would hate to see it tampered with in the slightest. If alternate methods are Incorporated I would like to see them stay just that - alternate methods with no attempt to integrate them with YaST. John Abbott - still a learner at this advanced age
EXCELLENT! I would vote for that in a heartbeat! On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 13:11 -0400, Murphy, James (Tech) wrote:
Actually I think that Suse should lighten the load with Kde most people do not need all the crap that comes with KDE and if necessary just have it in a repository , FreeBSD has a kde lite which is quite good. With open suse I guess legal issues still affect what software can or cannot be included , but a standard list of YAST sources such as packman ect should be included but disabled , this would be great for newbies who want to install software but don’t know how.
-----Original Message----- From: John Abbott [mailto:john@abbotts-r.us] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 1:10 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Whishlist
El Miércoles, 10 de Agosto de 2005 17:55, houghi escribió:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:30:18PM +0200, Víctor Fernández Martínez wrote:
No, please. YaST is doing fine, why change to APT?
For all the software out there that is not included in SUSE itself, like playing DVD's, wmdrawer, ccze, Even with the amount of software available with each distro, there will always be some things that will NOT be included and that a user would like.
I have had little or no trouble getting anything I wanted installed on 9.3 However there are occasions where I need to revert to the command line. One of the greatest strengths of SuSE is YaST and I would hate to see it tampered with in the slightest. If alternate methods are Incorporated I would like to see them stay just that - alternate methods with no attempt to integrate them with YaST.
John Abbott - still a learner at this advanced age
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 12:20 -0500, John Abbott wrote:
EXCELLENT! I would vote for that in a heartbeat!
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 13:11 -0400, Murphy, James (Tech) wrote:
Actually I think that Suse should lighten the load with Kde most people do not need all the crap that comes with KDE and if necessary just have it in a repository , FreeBSD has a kde lite which is quite good. With open suse I guess legal issues still affect what software can or cannot be included , but a standard list of YAST sources such as packman ect should be included but disabled , this would be great for newbies who want to install software but don’t know how.
This would be great. I couldn't begin to count the number of people using 9.3 that ask how to use other sources as YaST sources. It would make it very much easier for the newbies.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:30:52PM -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 12:20 -0500, John Abbott wrote:
EXCELLENT! I would vote for that in a heartbeat!
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 13:11 -0400, Murphy, James (Tech) wrote:
Actually I think that Suse should lighten the load with Kde most people do not need all the crap that comes with KDE and if necessary just have it in a repository , FreeBSD has a kde lite which is quite good. With open suse I guess legal issues still affect what software can or cannot be included , but a standard list of YAST sources such as packman ect should be included but disabled , this would be great for newbies who want to install software but don???t know how.
This would be great. I couldn't begin to count the number of people using 9.3 that ask how to use other sources as YaST sources. It would make it very much easier for the newbies.
Indeed a great step. It does not solve the issue of version upgrade like apt does. The update in openSUSE should be possible without the need of downloading an instalation CD. houghi -- The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election.
I don't agree with the first thing but I can't agree more with you in the second. But instead, what if they created a contrib repository where Packman, Guru and a lot of package maintainers lived, together with everyone who wanted to participate? El Miércoles, 10 de Agosto de 2005 19:11, Murphy, James (Tech) escribió:
Actually I think that Suse should lighten the load with Kde most people do not need all the crap that comes with KDE and if necessary just have it in a repository , FreeBSD has a kde lite which is quite good. With open suse I guess legal issues still affect what software can or cannot be included , but a standard list of YAST sources such as packman ect should be included but disabled , this would be great for newbies who want to install software but don't know how.
-- Víctor Fernández Martínez Gabinete de prensa de PoLinux [www.polinux.upv.es]. Usuario de Linux registrado #312284 en http://counter.li.org.
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