We need a Yast in Fedora

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 15:53 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 18:50 +0000, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
> > Yast is absolutely useless....a tool that overwrite your manually
> > edited files is just plain wrong.
> 
> Goes back to the same reasons that LinuxConf got dumped (that, and it
> messing things up because it didn't keep pace with how things needed to
> be configured).  Webmin, another thing that might please this request,
> also had similiar issues.
> 
> And as has been pointed out, we have just about everything in a menu, if
> you want local GUI control.  Likewise, with KDE's control center.  For
> automated system configuration, you'd prepare a configuration on a
> server, and push the configuration files out to the clients.
> 
> With computing, and this sort of request, I think you really need to
> work out what you shouldn't do, as one of the first steps.
No kidding... I hated YAST. A truly horrible interface. What we have
just plain works. Ric