I greatly miss the features that the older "YaST" provided. One was the single package installation from a local directory. The other is the ability to go to various SuSE ftp sites, such as the supplementary directory and "compare" the packages there with those installed on my machine. For instance, I could look at the KDE-Base dir and see if an updated package was there. This was extremely usefull in order to apply patched/fixed packages and stabilize KDE. Now I have to do an "rpm -qv foo" to see what version is installed on my system and compare this to the files on the SuSE ftp server. This can be very time consuming and labor intensive if one desires to check the ftp site package against installed package in the KDE-Apps directory for example. I would urge you to integrate some of these features in YaST2. I do understand you attempts at unifying these to programs. However, the aforemention features would be greatly appreciated. Thank You. Curtis Rey
From reading all the problems people are having, i'd have prefered yast1 being there for the change over release with it gone for 8.1, and let the people who have to administer the systems have time to work out the changeover of their processes at their own rate rather than having to do it 'cold turkey'. I for one will not be moving my systems up until I am happy with it and may look at others as I am less than happy with SuSE's processes. There have been too many problems of this type when they have had major revisions. scsijon At 02:29 PM 4/30/02 -0500, Curtis Rey wrote:
I greatly miss the features that the older "YaST" provided. One was the single package installation from a local directory. The other is the ability to go to various SuSE ftp sites, such as the supplementary directory and "compare" the packages there with those installed on my machine. For instance, I could look at the KDE-Base dir and see if an updated package was there. This was extremely usefull in order to apply patched/fixed packages and stabilize KDE. Now I have to do an "rpm -qv foo" to see what version is installed on my system and compare this to the files on the SuSE ftp server. This can be very time consuming and labor intensive if one desires to check the ftp site package against installed package in the KDE-Apps directory for example.
I would urge you to integrate some of these features in YaST2. I do understand you attempts at unifying these to programs. However, the aforemention features would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You. Curtis Rey
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changeover of their processes at their own rate rather than having to do it 'cold turkey'. I for one will not be moving my systems up until I am happy
Actually its is quite warm now here at this time of the year or maybe Istanbul is not in "Turkey" ps." I am just playing with the word I know what you mean but I just spend couple of hours in the Doc's office who is trying to fix my knee with no progress at all. So I took the shot to the word" -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
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