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On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 03:42:42PM +0000, Jay R. Ashworth via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bill Campbell via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> 
> >   + SuSE Linux through SuSE 9 Pro (at least one of these is still in
> >     production).  Gave up on SuSE after bad experience with their
> >     treatment of resellers, and their move to the monolithic YAST system
> >     which wouldn't allow me to make changes by editing system files
> >     manually.
> 
> That's interesting.  YAST was the 4th or 5th menu-driven administration system
> I used in my career, and I liked it *precisely because* it didn't care if you
> had manually edited the *actual* config files -- it read those, and that's 
> what you got in the menu to edit; every other earlier such system I'd used
> for that had "shadow" files with it's own data, and built the real ones.
> 
> Not YaST.
> 
> Back as far as 9.0 that was true.

My memory of it, somewhere between SLES10 and OpenSuSE 11.4, is that it
would just refuse to deal with at least -some- files if you'd edited
them yourself.

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