RE: Yast for debian
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Davide Mirtillo <davide@ser-tec.org> wrote:
>> Il 17/12/2012 12:57, Muhammad Yousuf Khan ha scritto:
>>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:17:56PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>>>> is there any tool equivalent to yast in Debian?
>>>>
>>>> For those of us unfamiliar with what Yast is or does now, can you
>>>> explain the particular features you are looking for?
>>>
>>> SUSE administration tool. instead of x server, admins can use a
>>> pseudo-graphical user interface to manage the server. for more
>>> details please read.
>>>
>>> https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE_114/opensuse-ref
>>> erence/cha.yast.text.html
>>>
>>
>> What about aptitude?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptitude_(software)
>
>Aptitude is nice, but it only does one fraction of what YAST does.
>I am not sure of the full extent of YAST, but besides installation/removal of software, it does at least account management, >service management/configuration (DNS, mail, etc) and firewall configuration. It a bit like Webmin or AIX's SMIT (YAST has a >TUI mode and a GUI mode like SMIT/SMITTY; no web interface). I do not know of anything like it in Debian since webmin >was removed.
>
>Cheers,
>Kelly Clowers
The majority of Debian maintainers are aware of the existence of Yast. I expect that if interest in it was that high, they would have long ago adapted it for Debian. Since they haven't, I assume that interest in it is not that high.
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