Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:03:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good <tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org> To: Joe Walsh <crli@crli.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: Some food for thought...(aka rant of the day) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000531123834.19448A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <s934f059.041@crli.com>
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On Wed, 31 May 2000, Joe Walsh wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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
They also have the redhat ailment as regards shoving the postgres
stuff into /var/lib. This is irritating to me. Postgres is not
part of SuSe or Redhat --- it is a killer app --- that should be
installed in the /usr/local (/pgsql) dir.
This is one area where FBSD is superior: they don't put apps in
odd places, most packages seem to end up in /usr/local/*
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