Re: [gentoo-dev] YaST will be GPL

[Aiko Barz]

Oh no!

In germany almost all the users start with SuSE and switch to a
different distribution sooner or later. One reason is YAST!

For example: I switched, because YAST always destroyed my
handmade configurations. Now this is long ago, but i figured out
lately, that I couldn't send a DHCP-request, without creating some
YAST-specific configuration files, which have to be made by calling
YAST, of course.

The 'Nürnberger Windows' doesn't want the user to know about the
shell. I hope, gentoo has different aims. The people I know use
gentoo not only because of the excellent packetmanagement. They use
it, because the "Installation Guide" gives them a real good feeling!

I don't read gentoo-user and I don't read the forum very often, so I
can only talk about people i know: They prefer a distribution for the
_shell_. That kind of distribution will not be a 'total world
domination', of course, but it can still be something very special!

My question: How important is the shell to the gentoo developers?

Bis denne,
        Aiko
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