From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 31 9: 0:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from crli.com (mail-gat.crli.com [207.112.165.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B68437BEAB for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 09:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crli@crli.com) Received: from CORP#u#DOM-Message_Server by crli.com with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 31 May 2000 10:58:33 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:58:09 -0500 From: "Joe Walsh" To: tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: Some food for thought...(aka rant of the day) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Did YAST *force* you to use it, Gabriel? ;-) If I may jump in here, I may have something useful to add. While I'm no = SuSE expert, I did use that distribution for quite a while. It was my = experience that YAST could be avoided for day-to-day management, but if = you wanted to do an upgrade via their regular CD releases, you'd end up = with YAST. What that means is that all the settings YAST keeps in its own = setup files would end up in your text config files around the disk, = overwriting your own carefully-designed config files. =20 So, no, you're not forced to use YAST, but you're better off using it for = all the services it offers if you have SuSE installed and want to take = advantage of the convenience of updating via their 6-CD distribution sets = as I did. Have a good one, -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message