YAST and YUM Front-end
Matias Feliciano
feliciano.matias at free.fr
Mon May 10 00:19:17 UTC 2004
Le lun 10/05/2004 à 00:40, Rory Gleeson a écrit :
> I have three words for Red Hat:
>
> "Embrace and Extend"
>
> But seriously, the company that gets the Package Manager right will get
> the customers. Mandrake has tried but hasn't quite made it, although
> they've done a decent job. Their manager is just split in to too many
> different drakes now. They need to go back, simplify and bring them all
> together, as posters here are suggesting needs to be done with a Yum
> front-end that accomplishes all tasks.
>
> YAST works but Fedora appears to have many other strengths in hardware
> and network recognition, easy kernel upgrades (MDK has missed the boat
> on that one) and that sweet little up2date panel icon. So, I prefer
> Fedora. It's also more open than SuSE, which is important.
>
> While it may take a bit of humility for Red Hat to consider the idea of
> adopting YAST, there's nothing wrong with incorporating YAST in to Red
> Hat products, or **at least experimenting with the idea by incorporating
> it in to Fedora Core 3**. Now that YAST is GPL,
Not yet.
from "rpm2cpio ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/suse/src/yast2-packagemanager-2.9.37-0.src.rpm "
COPYING :
2. Processing
All programmes derived from YaST 2 and all works derived from it in full
or parts thereof are to be filled on the opening screen with the clear
information "Modified Version". ...
[...]
> a lot of start-up
> distros will quickly embrace it and I think it could easily and quickly
> become a standard.
>
> There's are nothing wrong with open source standards. Beats forking.
>
> And vendors would love it. The community needs to get behind vanilla
> kernels (as Fedora is doing), standard RPM's and stop forcing developers
> to modify their software for different distros. Silly and
> short-sighted. Make it easy for software manufacturers to build one
> program with one installation method that works on all flavours of Linux
> and Billy Gates problems continue to mount. YAST may be that solution.
>
> If nothing else, Fedora would shock the bloody hell out of the Linux
> community and Novell with that little announcment. ;)
>
> So, I take it back... don't "embrace and extend."
>
> Simply "Embrace."
>
> ~Rory
> Toronto, Canada
>
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 11:51:10 -0700
> From: Sean Earp <smearp at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: Call for Yum Frontend
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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> SuSE just (or is in the process of) GPL'ing it's YAST tool (which
> combines the basic functions of Anaconda, system-config-packages, and
> up2date/yum)
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5175682.html?tag=nefd_top
>
> (donning flame suite now...)
>
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