YaST - i won't even touch YaST2 here - is nice for the beginner and the person who wants to use a functional system without worrying too much. but YaST is a nightmare for the established linux expert (i am blushing just a litte - but please don't consider me arrogant). it's the windows syndrome - make administration easier at the cost of complicating things and hiding important details. for instance, configuring my PCMCIA eth0 device is not something to be done in any other location than /etc/pcmcia/network.opts.
but hey, i am an established redhat/debian Linux user and new to suse, so i shall not rave and drool about things that i don't really have experience with right here.
i do have a question: what if i decided to abandon YaST, to uninstall it (YaST2 is already gone anyway), to move all YaST config stuff to something like /var/adm/backup or ~root/backup, to create my own scripts, and to use suse as a linux system and not as a suse system with YaST? sure, i'd loose installation support, but i don't really want that anyway. are there other consequences?
Well. I have two reactions to this. Firstly I think it may be a huge amount of work, and probably bothersome work, because yast does look after most of the dependencies for you. You should consider rc.config as being the cornerstone here - an the sub-scripts (so to speak) that it calls. In principle this is good system, certainly better than linuxconf, which is a real nightmare. I would be worried that you would be chasing your tail so-to-speak for quite a while. But if you have the time. My second reactions (I have asked Suse for an official statement on Yast1 but they are unlikely to give one) - is that if you do a good job of it and package the stuff together a bit you may become famous and all the pissed-off Suse people will knock at your door :) Personally I think my days using Suse are numbered anyway, the direction they are going in, and their complete lack of interest in their small-time users is starting to grate on me. They never listen or respond to suggestions or criticism. They are just trying to out-redhat redhat now. Ah well. Shame really, it is a pretty neat distribution. Good luck with your venture ! Cliff
what about certifications? as i understand, suse uses LPI certs - so knowledge of YaST should not be required. am i right?
is anyone of you running suse without YaST? experiences?
thanks, martin
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