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I've not seen any package management system that is this flexible.  This 
is just the software install portion of yast.  It's a unified system 
management system.

> The lack of a GUI interface shouldn't be a problem as the OP was looking 
> for a solution for remote management which in my mind implies command 
> line (yes, yes, X11 forwarding exists... but really... ew).

Yast works both in X11 and a terminal.

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Until later, Geoffrey


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