[ale] linux recommendations

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Dec 22 19:59:49 EST 2004


james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:04:53PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>You can search the following criteria:
>>
>>Name, Summary, Description, Provides, Requires.
>>
>>Further you can specify the search mode as:
>>
>>contains, begins with, exact match, use wild cards, use regular expressions.
>>
>>I've not seen any package management system that is this flexible.  This 
>>is just the software install portion of yast.  It's a unified system 
>>management system.
> 
> 
> Then install some Debian distro on a box and play with it. That type of
> searching is not unique to Yast.

I did not say it was.  I also said that I had very little experience 
with apt as well as Debian.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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