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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Carlos E. R.   
   Re: Advice for newbie   
   10 Feb 26 19:34:06   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:54:20 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-02-09 22:54, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 22:14:54 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2026-02-09 22:00, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:10:37 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> And some ditch a wonderful, solid, working installer as is YaST   
   >>>>> and invent a new one like Agama and release it on us while   
   >>>>> incomplete.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Nothing to stop anybody continuing to include YaST in their   
   >>>> distros.   
   >>>   
   >>> That it is not maintained and adjusted for the current system   
   >>> features.   
   >>   
   >> It is “maintained” by anybody who wants to take the code and make   
   >> updates to it.   
   >   
   > There are none.   
      
   If you care so much, why don’t you step forward to do it?   
      
   Remember the software only existed because somebody cared enough to   
   create it in the first place.   
      
   The code doesn’t write itself, you know.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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