From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2017-04-23 06:09, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 04/22/2017 07:22 AM, Darklight wrote:   
   >> bad sector wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I've managed to use a binary ge-5.2 compiled on another suse version a   
   >>> few times but with TW/Leap that don't work eiter. How did something as   
   >>> basic/vital as stick support NOT get into LSB? This blows me away, not   
   >>> to mention that many years have passed sincs LSB was started but it's   
   >>> STILL not incorporated.   
   >>   
   >> i read some where opensuse 13.2 yast is written in ruby. leap might be   
   >> written in something different. don't put to much trust in this   
   >> statement.   
   >   
   > Yast hasn't been involved in my case for a very long time because I have   
   > been installing 5.2 only via the google install.sh. The reason is that   
   > while 5.2 is the last version I know of with stick support it also has a   
   > fubar internal-goof that needs to be fixed before installation. I have   
   > no suse-rpm of the last workable 5.2 and even if I did I have no idea   
   > how today's Yast would handle it (5.2 goes back quite a few years).   
      
   YaST has no issues installing an old rpm.   
      
   However, there are issues with an old rpm, irrelevant of how you install   
   it, with its dependencies.   
      
      
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