On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 23:25 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:20 -0800, James D. Parra wrote: > > > Personally, I like ncurses Yast. You can accomplish a lot quickly with the > > > tool and it is easy to use. A great admin app' if you don't run X on your > > > systems. I'd like to see it, or something very similar, in Fedora. > > > > > > James > > > > > > > >No way. Yast blows. I get sick and tired of it hanging in mid update, > > >or post-update. It's a giant pain in my hiney to use on the Altix3700 > > >it's running on. I'll stick to CLI. > > > > Updating the system is only one component of administration. The other tools > > within Yast are so useful, I wouldn't let that single item stop me from > > using the rest of the functionality in Yast. I have yet to see the perfect > > tool. > > I wouldn't think it would be impossible to build the 'perfect tool' > though. The thing that blew that (crud! cannot remember the name of the > caldera all-in-one application they had back when) whateverits name out > of the water was that it wouldn't check for hand-edits... it would blow > them off reading from it's own history file. A really good one would > read the conf files each time and go from there. Jeeeezzz. what was the > name of that thing? The guy that wrote it really tried hard, and his > heart was in the right place... but this is a pretty tough crowd... > ornery too! It went down in flames and ashes, tomatoes tossed with > great abandon. Someone help me on this... what was the name of that? Ric ---- linuxconfig Craig
