And why does everyone sing the praises of Yast and in the same breath talk about a command line package manager?
Because "Yast wagon" is very new, and few people know about it. http://en.opensuse.org/Wagon
But it exists, it works, and it is officially supported as an upgrade method for 11.2. I can see it becoming the standard upgrade tool in 8-months if we bugzilla and feature request it enough.
If it is to become the upgrade method, then it really really needs a LOT of work. Compare the competition... look at the Ubuntu upgrade process... from release to release it simple even when you've enabled community repos. You click one button, it goes off and does some magic and you're done. With Wagon, there is still a rather scary manual step (for new/inexperienced users): (quoting) 3. ensure you have the the correct repositories enabled 1. Click repository management 2. disable all repositories not 11.2 compatible 3. add these repo's by url: 1. "openSUSE 11.2 Oss" - http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ 2. "openSUSE 11.2 Non-OSS" - http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss 3. "openSUSE 11.2 Updates" - http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ (end qoute) This is something that does not have to be done (in my experience) with Ubuntu upgrades. But... this is probably a topic for factory not here.... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org