Looking at the Leap 16.0 Beta release announcement – <openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Beta> – also available via the News feed – <openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Beta> – the following may well be interesting –
If someone is interested in the maintanece of YaST for further development and bugfixes, the source are available on github.
In other words, also for Tumbleweed, YaST may well disappear if, nobody is prepared to pick up the maintenance of the thing …
And, there’s also this statement regarding Tumbleweed on another Leap 16 issue in this Forum – <Does anyone know if OpenSUSE TW will require the x86_64-v2 architecture?>
Tumbleweed still supports ancient hardware. It is only Leap which requires v2
> ld.so --help
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Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps directories, in priority order:
x86-64-v4
x86-64-v3 (supported, searched)
x86-64-v2 (supported, searched)
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This Leap 15.6 system supports “x86-64-v2” (and v3) but, not “x86-64-v4” …