OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67366

    OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool

    Phoronix: OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool

    The openSUSE project announced today YQPkg as a new package management tool for openSUSE Linux distributions...

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  • Estranged1906
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2022
    • 304

    #2
    Funny how it looks exactly like the Yast package manager (which by the way is also part of the OpenSUSE installer). It might not depend on Yast per se, but it's obviously just a piece of Yast that can run without the rest of Yast.

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    • sophisticles
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2015
      • 2594

      #3
      The point of this is?

      The answer is that like most things related to Linux it's little more than busy work, something to allow the developer to tell themselves that they matter and that they are making a difference.

      There is nothing this "installer" does that a properly done bash script can't do.

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      • frantisheq
        Junior Member
        • May 2024
        • 5

        #4
        how about fixing auto login under plasma wayland plasma after all those years

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        • rene
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2015
          • 1505

          #5
          man, this is probably most interesting and newsworthy news of 2024, ... if just this site was not so biased, and at least once a year could shout out our all CPU arch and even the deleted ones supporting T2/linux, ... https://t2sde.org/#news-2024-12-19 "Sky's the Limit" At this rate I better also start my own unbiased IT news site, ... ;-)

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          • Jedibeeftrix
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2011
            • 330

            #6
            perhaps it's because SLES 16 is basically deprecating the whole of YAST...
            with the installer routine soon to be done by agama, and the new FDE/sdbootutil unsupported by Yast, maybe this is simply a replacement package management tool to sit alongside agama in future suse products? tumbleweed, sles 16, etc.

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            • kiffmet
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2016
              • 477

              #7
              Jedibeeftrix SuSE is phasing out YaST? That's the end of an era right there. Damn, it almost seems like yesterday to me that they searched someone to port the tooling to a newer programming language because the original YaST codebase became unmaintainable due to a lack of devs having the required set of niche skills.

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              • pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx
                Senior Member
                • Jul 2020
                • 1591

                #8
                Cool that they are separating this out from YaST. There are certainly things that YaST makes easier for new users, for example tweaking your kernel command line without having to remember how to fuck around with grub updates. But like most software, it needs TLC and maintenance, and they haven't been keeping up with changes elsewhere. There's a YaST Firewall section but it only works with Wicked, not Network-Manager that basically everyone has been using for many years.

                KDE users have Discover and GNOME users have Software. It's nice to have a DE independent tool for all the other options out there. And OpenSUSE devs mostly hate PackageKit. Some OpenSUSE offerings like Aeon (immutable GNOME appliance-like Tumbleweed) have already dropped YaST.

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                • marccollin
                  Phoronix Member
                  • May 2013
                  • 80

                  #9
                  only command i need under tumbleweed to update: zypper dup --no-recommends

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                  • mathletic
                    Phoronix Member
                    • Jan 2023
                    • 63

                    #10
                    * Pro: Getting rid of old code from YaST sounds like a good idea.
                    * Contra: The new name is insane.
                    * Contra: Why using C++17? Either start with at least C++20 or better C++23 or Rust.

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