The openSUSE project has released Leap 16, its first major release since openSUSE Leap 15 in May 2018. This release brings some changes to the core of the distribution aside from the usual software upgrades; YaST has been retired, SELinux has replaced AppArmor as the default mandatory access control (MAC) system, and more.
My reading is that the installer is no longer based on YaST, not that YaST has been retired overall.
All of YaST is deprecated because it was too difficult to maintain, and the devs are constantly telling people to stop using it over on the official forums. We’re supposed to have switched to Cockpit and Myrlyn by now.
I had no idea! It seems like it was a really unruly project to manage, but it’s a shame to lose the centralization of having one app that can configure anything. I don’t see any problem in having package management split off into Myrlyn, but it sounds like Cockpit is much more limited in scope, which is a shame, since handling the edge cases gracefully was what made YaST so useful.
Here’s a source for others who didn’t realize.
So far, there’s no replacement for many parts of YaST that I use frequently, so I’m holding onto them until they stop working. Supposedly, more Cockpit addons are planned or in the works. I do hope that it eventually can do all the things YaST used to be able to do. It was a great tool.
I truly hope they don’t retire it until there’s a true successor. Yast is in its own class of admin tools.
Agreed. Fortunately, I don’t see anything about that being planned, they are just separating system installation from system management. I’m fine with that, as long as the new installer keeps the good control over partition management.