J Leslie Turriff composed on 2025-09-26 00:28 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
Debian's package management system is no less competent than openSUSE's, though I do far and away prefer zypper and rpm.
I haven't used anything except YaST since I started with OpenSuSE 6.3, another reason for my question. YaST has generally been very friendly, though lacking support for NetworkManager and now this weirdness with partitioning.
Leap 16 has Myrlyn available for GUI software management. So far, 16 still hasn't eliminated YaST2. I just opened Myrlyn for the first time, and the only notable difference I can see between it and yast2 sw_single is the titlebar says Myrlyn instead of YaST2. You could add a repo for http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/packagemanager/15.6/x86_64/ and install it on 15.6 to give it a workout.
What I do do when installing Debian, is minimalist, by appending the following parameters (among others) to the installer's boot command line:
tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false \ GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
This avoids the bloat of Gnome, Plasma, XFCE, Cinnamon or any other desktops, giving free reign to TDE to do whatever it pleases. :) My Debians all have TDE, and no other "DE" but IceWM, as super lightweight tester+fallback.
Does not this GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true prevent the installer from adding my existing openSUSE system (soon to be for fallback) from being added to the boot menu?
I was just reporting some things I do or not. I do all my booting from Tumbleweed's Grub, so there's no need to run os-prober on any other installation here to build yet another a big bloated grub.cfg that will unlikely ever be opened. With TW running the boot show, all booting is done via a /etc/grub.d/ call to /boot/grub2/custom.cfg, showing menu entries I put there with one of my favorite text editors. For more detail about this, read my posts on: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/how-to-have-a-custom-uefi-grub-menu-for-a-multiboot-system/133541