Re: Change from SuSE to Debian
pete atkinson wrote (on 11 Mar 2002 at 19:36):
> Are there any hints/tips/watch-out-fors that you could offer,
> principally, I am a bit confused over the non-RPMness of packages and
> the lack of the config suites such as YAST/YAST2 that SusE employs.
Hi Pete!
Make project lists. Pull out a couple sheets of scratch paper
and start a page for "Mail", one for "httpd", one for
"Printing", one for "Application X that's supposed to run on
this box", etc. Then you can break down each page into a few
interlocking programs or packages. Then stick to one page until
you've got it licked--or until it degenerates into a minor to-do
list. SuSE and YAST try to make a monolith out of something that
is by nature modular.
Your phrase "Non-RPM-ness of packages" mystifies me. BTW up
until today I was reading [suse-linux] (I'd started on account
of a system I got stuck with), and it was very entertaining to
see a few people there who know something of the world
explaining to the others about really dependable dependencies,
apt-get, and something like Debian's bug tracker. Welcome!
T.
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