Hi .. On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:16:52AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: >> Why ... is there any good decision for avoiding Yast in debian? >Not "YaST in Debian" just "YaST in any system that I might at some stage >have to work on". It's track record of maintaining user changes to config >files and such is abysmal - THE number one reason I avoid SuSE in all it's >forms. What I want to avoid is creating a machine, lovingly set it up >exactly how it needs to be, then have some yahoo say "hey, this YaST thing >will help me out" and demolish the work I've done. Hmm, me is not using yast at all since I am using Debian. But I saw the recent yast on SuSE 9.0 and I think, for poeple who do not want to think much about configurations of their systems should yast be a good utility. Yast is a nice gui too. And when there some Debian-People working on a good desktop solution for debian, I think, a tool like yast might a great addition for the projekt to provide a gui for configuration the whole system. When there are some people using only a gui and not a console at all, a configuration gui might made their live with the system much easier. You keep to be able for configuring your debian with text-editors on the console, and _this_ is important, in my eyes. Yast is able to detect each, manually edited configuration file, so it should (I do not know, whether it works) not overwrite the settings. Regards Jan
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