On Wednesday 12 October 2005 09:45, houghi wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:19:34AM +0200, Alexander S. Usov wrote:
> > As far as I see they are somewhat less crippled with respect to
> > multimedia software, but I am not sure whether I am looking for trouble
> > by by letting them replace the packages from the base system.
>
> The `danger` is that those you replace are being locked, wich means they
> will not be updated with YOU. To see what foles are affected, open yast,
> Software Management and filter on Instalation summery.
>
> There you can select the Versions and see if there are any that you can
> use. You then can change it and do a reinstall of the files. It can happen
> that things are then not compatible, but YaST will warn you.
> That way I only have `speex` that is available on SUSE and Packman, but
> must use the Packman one.

That's is one of the reasons I don't like YaST package manager.
The other one is a very strange way of updating the stuff and the inability to 
set priorities. Truly to say the only one thing I really liked is the ability 
to revert the installed system to one of the installation choices. For the 
rest I think apt is much better.

-- 
Best regards,
  Alexander.

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