[ale] Package Management System

[Jason Day]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 08:02:30PM -0400, Ray Knight wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 10:29, Jason Day wrote:
[snip]
> > My biggest complaint with apt-get is that all packages are built for the
> > i386.  But that's what gentoo is for :)
> > -- 
> 
> Oh, really???  apt-get is the only method for getting packages on my old
> Quadra 650 Macintosh.  And apt-get even has packages for the HP 7xxx
> Series machines.  Tell me another distribution that supports as many
> hardware ports as Debian.  

Sorry, that wasn't at all what I meant to say.  You are right, Debian
does supoort a wide variety of hardware.  What I meant to say was, all
*intel* packages are build for the i386, ie, no i686-optimized packages.

> 
> My biggest gripe with Debian package management is the lack of a decent
> graphical package selection program.  If you don't know the name of the
> package you want to install it's a real pain to find.

There are at least 2 curses-based gui frontends for apt, a gnome
frontend, and I believe there is a KDE frontend.  Personally, whenever I
need to install a package that I don't know the name of, I just hop over
to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages , do a quick search, and
apt-get install it.  I find this faster than firing up a gui, but of
course most people would probably prefer the gui approach.

Jason
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