Re: YaST2 for Debian (aka nYaST)
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.
> 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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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/
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