Hi Cies, I was very interested in your E-mail and I hope we can discuss it a little :-)
i just get home from a party, and read an announcement that yast is now 'community'. the party was good though.
:-)
i loved suse, but not anymore. mainly because of yast.
Glad you tell us :-)
- a good package manage system
Actually we started working on this this week :-)
- an integrated product
In which ways do you lack integration?
- some sane defaults everywhere
Can you please provide some examples?
suse from 10 onward was (imho) lacking all. yast basically didn't change; it also was not very 'community'.
I see your point.
now there is the *ubuntu family that kind of save all of us by being the cool debian, and all of a sudden yast is not longer a 'strategic advantage' but a large disadvantage.
In what ways?
so yast is a problem
I wouldn't go that far :-)
the solution can be new: why not do the configuring from a webpage (that at the same time has a command line interface)?
We are discussing that internally.
please think big!
We will! :-)
p.p.s: did i mention that it might also be a good moment to drop RPM in favor of DEB? (this might even create a strong cooperations between suse and the debian/ubuntu/etc.)
What would be the advantage of it? Why are we using RPM instead of DEB? As you probably got from my answers, we are currently discussing and start working to change some issues but I it good to have some additional input to them as well. Thanks and enjoy, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz@novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org