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On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:47:21PM +0100, Aiko Barz wrote: |
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> Oh no! |
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> In germany almost all the users start with SuSE and switch to a |
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> different distribution sooner or later. One reason is YAST! |
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> For example: I switched, because YAST always destroyed my |
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> handmade configurations. Now this is long ago, but i figured out |
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> lately, that I couldn't send a DHCP-request, without creating some |
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> YAST-specific configuration files, which have to be made by calling |
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> YAST, of course. |
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> The 'Nürnberger Windows' doesn't want the user to know about the |
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> shell. I hope, gentoo has different aims. The people I know use |
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> gentoo not only because of the excellent packetmanagement. They use |
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> it, because the "Installation Guide" gives them a real good feeling! |
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> I don't read gentoo-user and I don't read the forum very often, so I |
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> can only talk about people i know: They prefer a distribution for the |
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> _shell_. That kind of distribution will not be a 'total world |
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> domination', of course, but it can still be something very special! |
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> My question: How important is the shell to the gentoo developers? |
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I don't think gentoo will ever change the distribution in a way |
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which forces you to use GUI tools. |
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About YAST, well i don't really know the latest versions, but i |
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think changing Gentoo to use YAST would need too many ugly core |
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changes. |
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Personaly i wouldn't like to see "if YAST then" code in the core |
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code of Portage, init, or other core parts of Gentoo and i think |
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enough others dislike that too :) |
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Christian |
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