OT: YUM was Re: [NBLUG/talk] linux distro

[Warren Raquel]

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YUM can be used as an autoupdater as well as at the command line. I like
that you can tell it to install an obscure library file and it will find
the package that the file is in, install it and all its dependencies.
I'm not sure about a gui interface for YUM, though. I just recently
downloaded a SuSE 8.2 mirror so I'm going to try and install it when I
get to work today. From what you say I like that YaST is so complete and
comes with the base install. It sounds like to get the same
functionality from the other distros you have to install other tools not
in the base install, at least that has been my experience in the past.
For redhat I have to install apt-get to get dependency files to be
automatically detected and downloaded (does RedHat have something for
this yet?). Mandrake is pretty cool with urpmi, it runs kinda like
apt-get, I haven't really taken it for a full test drive yet, anyone
else care to give a head-to-head run down? I've been playing with Gentoo
recently and I like that you can emerge a package and all the
dependencies get downloaded and compiled (nothing is precompiled). My
problem with Gentoo is that I can't figure out a way to see what
programs are already installed and while files were installed with a
package, anyone got any tips? Well, I have a ton more questions but I'll
save them for a different email when I have more time.

Bob Blick wrote:
| Warren Raquel said:
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|
|>I've never used SuSE so I have no idea how Yast works. How does it
|>compare to YUM?
|
|
| I've never used YUM, but isn't that just an update tool?
|
| If you've ever used Windows, you know Control Panel tries to unify all
| things related to setup, software, system tuning and settings in one
| place, with a unified interface.
|
| YaST does the same thing for linux. It has two interfaces, one is
| curses-based, and the other is for X.
|
| Unlike the Mandrake and RedHat equivalents, YaST is quite mature, actually
| works and is quite complete. You really don't need to hand edit anything
| anymore. Yes, I have used the other distros ;-) and their setup tools are
| not as complete. YaST has been around forever and SuSE has been improving
| it all along.
|
| Of course, that means you are not _forced_ to learn quite as much about
| linux as you would with the other distros, but it's much less frustrating
| to new users, and to someone who already knows how and when to edit
| inetd.conf, restart init, etc, I still like having everything in one place
| (The files are still there and you can edit them by hand if you want). And
| YaST remembers to restart affected processes, something we all have
| forgotten to do at one time or another.
|
| Mark is right, they no longer do iso images but their ftp install does
| work if you want it free. Did I say the books that come with the boxed
| editions are very good?
|
| Cheerful regards,
|
| Bob
|
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