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Re: YaST2 for Debian (aka nYaST)



On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 11:04 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 09:32 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Mario Fux wrote:
> > >
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > It's going to take a _lot_ of work to adapt yast2 to Debian, more than
> > > just tweaking a few config files.
> >
> > Questions:
> > 1. Then does that indicate that Yast2 might not be suitable for
> >    Debian?
> 
> No I think it can be made to work.  There are just a lot of Suse-isms to
> remove.

Would you integrate it with dpkg-reconfigure?

> > 2. Does Yast2 also keep configuration data in some sort of separ-
> >    ate database, meaning that people who switch between Yast2 and
> >    direct conf editing might screw up their systems?
> >
> 
> No it works on the regular conf files and allows round-tripping.


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