[ale] Distro question...

[Preston Boyington]

 wrote:
> 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..)

and for a gui frontend to apt there's Synaptic...

(sorry, meant to include this in the previous email.  hit the send key a bit too quick.)