* Felix Miata
I've seen you report this previously, but what set me to preferring SUSE over other distros in the first place was YaST. Once upon a time YaST was bulletproof. Now with several years of Novell management under the bridge it seems this SUSE attraction has nearly completed dying.
I disagree, but do prefer smart for package management, and apt-get before that.
OTOH, to me the Smart UI is best described as mystery meat.
You do have to use it and as with most things, it requires a little learning.
I hover over several toolbar icons, and get no tooltips to tell me what they're for.
goodness, I have not even seen the "toolbar icons", etc. Tooltips??
I open it up and it says on the statusbar "No interesting upgrades available!", while providing no apparent way to find out what non-interesting upgrades might be available.
It will only provide upgrades for installed software and ONLY from repositories that YOU have configured :^)
It has an icon for updating all packages, but none for updating installed packages.
Just how do you update a package that is not installed?
It has no menu item for configuration or preferences. How can normal people use such an un-smart tool?
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