[ale] Distro question...

[Barry Hawkins]

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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..)
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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.

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Barry Hawkins
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