[ale] Distro question...

[Geoffrey]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 17:15 -0500, Warren Myers wrote:
> 
>>There is a distinct lack of package management under Debian
> 
> 
> Woah!  That statement will start a war.  Debian TOPS the list at package
> management.  Specfically dselect and tasksel top what any other distro
> has to offer when it comes to shear quantity of available packages,
> package dependencies, and package installation, removal AND purging (a
> state that some distros know nothing about).

Then you've not seen Yast2.  It handles all of the above as well as the 
ability to search for a package by name, what it provides, what it 
requires, description.

Type 'tv' in the search box and you'll get a list of packages (kdetv, 
xawtv..)

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Until later, Geoffrey