http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540025
User rpmcruz@alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540025#c7
--- Comment #7 from Ricardo Cruz
YaST Gtk (software management) is not an easy tool to use, at least for me. I've been using kde 3.5 for some years and just recently switched to Gnome. YaST package manager is the only app I cannot get used with, it's a bit hard to understand its guidelines.
The renewed UI, hopefully to be shipped with M8, should be more friendly to past Qt UI users. PackageKit should also be featured in the Gnome LiveCD. But sure enough, let's bring your case to the guys with muscle here. I'll drop a comment into bug 529046. Feel free to make any rectification or further commentary, or wait to hear from Vincent -- notice that Vincent is attending the OpenSuse conference so he might take his time to reply.
That said, I don't think (at least yet) both interfaces provide the same features and manageability at the same level.
Maybe some features are less visible in one UI than the other, but they should be feature par. e.g. GTK "hides" package Lock under the context menu. Qt UI makes version micro-selection little easy to use. So they do make different UI trade-offs, but hopefully you can get the same results out of both frontends while possibly applying different efforts. If there's a dept the GTK UI lacks on, bugzilla will be open 24/7. ;) The one software manager still lacking is PackageKit, which is one reason why it still hasn't made it to default. (The features lacking are pretty unimportant for most uses, but it makes little sense to have two managers.)
OTOH, if both interfaces are planned to be installed by default under a Gnome installation pattern (and I think so it is), it make sense -at least to me- providing both in the LiveCD so it gets also tested.
In 11.1, yast2-qt does seem to be featured in the Yast pattern, albeit not in the Gnome pattern. So maybe that's how it sneaked through, but that'd be a bug, not a feature.
BTW, how many space take these "-qt" packages?
I don't think yast2-qt requires extra dependencies, so the RPMs for yast2-qt and the respective control center total about 1 Mb. Not sure how that would be in the Live CD compression scheme, but I'd be surprised if it was significantly larger. It does seem like a pittance, but the Gnome LiveCD always seems to be bursting at the seams. Only those guys can tell you how valuable that size is.
It seem there are missing dependencies:
Oh boy. Not sure why that would be. If you are still using the 64-bits LiveCD, of course you want to use the x86_64 packages. Other than that, dunno. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.