pete atkinson wrote (on 11 Mar 2002 at 19:36): > Are there any hints/tips/watch-out-fors that you could offer, > principally, I am a bit confused over the non-RPMness of packages and > the lack of the config suites such as YAST/YAST2 that SusE employs.
Hi Pete! Make project lists. Pull out a couple sheets of scratch paper and start a page for "Mail", one for "httpd", one for "Printing", one for "Application X that's supposed to run on this box", etc. Then you can break down each page into a few interlocking programs or packages. Then stick to one page until you've got it licked--or until it degenerates into a minor to-do list. SuSE and YAST try to make a monolith out of something that is by nature modular. Your phrase "Non-RPM-ness of packages" mystifies me. BTW up until today I was reading [suse-linux] (I'd started on account of a system I got stuck with), and it was very entertaining to see a few people there who know something of the world explaining to the others about really dependable dependencies, apt-get, and something like Debian's bug tracker. Welcome! T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
