[ale] Distro question...

[Geoffrey]

Barry Hawkins wrote:
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> Geoffrey wrote:
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> | 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.
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> | Type 'tv' in the search box and you'll get a list of packages (kdetv,
> | xawtv..)
> |
> I find aptitude and yast2 quite similar, and am impressed by both.  If
> SuSe still supported PowerPC I would have seriously looked at them.  One
> thing I particularly like in Debian's aptitude is support for regular
> expressions in the package search feature, i.e. '^mysql' only shows
> packages whose names begin with mysql, whereas 'mysql' shows anything
> containing mysql, etc.

That is nice, Yast does not support that.  Then again, I don't know that 
I need it.

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Until later, Geoffrey