[ale] Package Management System

[Ray Knight]

On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 10:29, Jason Day wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 08:35:52AM -0400, James CE Johnson wrote:
> > The only real pain in the butt is finding good, stable and up-to-date 
> > RPM repositories to feed to urpmi.addmedia.
> 
> This is exactly where Debian's apt-get is superior.  I don't know if
> Debian has more packages than SuSE (or Mandrake, RedHat, whatever), but
> I would bet the number is pretty close.  And remember, Debian has three
> distributions.
> 
> The stable distribution (Woody) is rock-solid.  It would be hard to find
> a more proven, stable distribution.  It is kept very up-to-date with
> security and bug fixes, but the versions are old.
> 
> The unstable distribution (Sid) is more bleeding edge, but it's
> (obviously) not as proven.  I've yet to have a problem with the unstable
> distribution, however.
> 
> 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.  

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.

Ray


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