it's a matter of taste and flavor. having used both, I prefer the SysV-style installs that most Linux distributions (in particular, RedHat) use. many files, but each little thing is in one specific file. that's the main reason why I don't like SuSE much, too: even though they have SysV-style scripts, configuration is much too centralized, you have everything in rc.config, and if you use SuSEConfig you have to rerun it and have it regenerate a lot of things everytime you make the slightest change.