Hi > telford> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 09:37:58PM +1000, Ashley wrote: > >> I'd offer to talk about YAST but it is so simple and user friendly > >> that it hardly needs more than "Here it is, the most user friendly > >> system of them all!" ;-p > > telford> I think we want each of the talks to be shortish anyhow but > telford> there are a bunch of things about package managers that might > telford> be of interest: > > Another issue is how easy is it to set up multiple sources, so that if > one is broken or incomplete another is used, and so on. Easy with > apt, hard (or at least I couldn;t work out how to do it) with yast.
So you are going to install some random binaries, packaged by some random person/s onto your machine because it's often easy and there are not lots of war stories .... good luck!! SuSE is often a PITA. (eg try to mount a flash as hdc to format it, with subfs fooling with your DVD drive) However yast is the best package manager I've used. I built a system, used apt-get to install mythtv and 50M later had it working. I built a system, downloaded lame-src mythtv-src and the total footprint was 10M by the time it worked. Ummm 40M of 'something'! James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
