Configuring YaST for the SRM components

I'm curious to know if most users running the vApp installations are using yast for packages and such. It has become quite obvious that these pre-built SUSE machines are stripped to the point they really need some modifications to be functional in an enterprise environment (beyond running the SRM components alone that is). Basic things like tcpdump are not there and they have no man pages for anything it appears. Does EMC have any objection to configuring yast / zypper on these (for repo and package mgmt.)?

thanks