Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:13, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Scott Thompson <sthompson@lldlaw.com> writes:
>
> > Does anyone know if there are any official or third party plans to develop a
> > version for Debian.
>
> I think you missed April Fools Day by a few months.
>
> I can't see anything that YaST can do that $EDITOR and discover doesn't
> do better. Besides, we've already tried something similar before. Go
> search for experiences with Red Hat's system configurator ported to
> Debian around the bo and hamm dynasties. Distro-specific tools just
> don't work outside that distro. And when they are, their usefulness is
> often distroyed, as was the case with Red Hat's rpm.
For those using GNOME, there is the gnome-system-tools package, which is
proposed for inclusion in the gnome-2.8 release (previously available as
a separate install).
I haven't tried it, so don't know if it suffers from the same problems
as YAST when editing config files. I don't believe it addresses hardware
discovery.
Regards,
Simon
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