On 13.06.2022 19:45, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

So instead of having to install yast2 (zypper tells me 11 MB), I now have to podman (25 MB).

But if you already have podman but not yast ...

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those new commands grab YaST and run it in a container that will be transparently used to administer the host system.

It's logically backwards that one is supposed to run Y2 in a container, only to have it go outside again. Containers are not supposed to affect the host system.

Ever heard about toolbox container for SUSE MicroOS? What about firewalld container? What about VPN containers? And this can continue ... Containers can be used just for application delivery, they are not restricted to application isolation.

So you have to widen the namespace to the point that it _is_ the host system, mounts included, at which point you could have just installed Y2.

May be not often, but for one off task this could be quite handy. Or read-only root where you simply cannot install anything ...