On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 15:53 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 18:50 +0000, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote: > > Yast is absolutely useless....a tool that overwrite your manually > > edited files is just plain wrong. > > Goes back to the same reasons that LinuxConf got dumped (that, and it > messing things up because it didn't keep pace with how things needed to > be configured). Webmin, another thing that might please this request, > also had similiar issues. > > And as has been pointed out, we have just about everything in a menu, if > you want local GUI control. Likewise, with KDE's control center. For > automated system configuration, you'd prepare a configuration on a > server, and push the configuration files out to the clients. > > With computing, and this sort of request, I think you really need to > work out what you shouldn't do, as one of the first steps. No kidding... I hated YAST. A truly horrible interface. What we have just plain works. Ric
