SuSE Package Management (was Re: SENDMAIL - HELP - SUSE)

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 09:54 pm, Dave Hull wrote:

> I haven't tried SuSE... yet, but this is interesting. Is there no way to do
> a command-line only install with no X system? If so, does the package
> management system use ncurses or something or similar?

Yes, there's a pseudo-graphics mode, but you have to step through all the 
menus, there's no way to say "yast2 install <package>" (docs claim you can, 
but it doesn't work).  Also no way to save excluded packages.

> If it's really not possible to have a text based SuSE install, then I
> probably won't bother trying it out. I prefer to keep my servers lean and
> mean. The less crap I can install on a box the better.

SuSE tends to keep it's server-targeted distro's two or three versions behind 
it's desktop (though both can contain the same packages).

I wouldn't recommend it for a server, but right now I don't know what I 
_would_ recommend.