Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

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.
>  

Somehow I thought the Red Hat tools were working spectacularly well in 
Knoppix which most see as a debian derivitive.




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