Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:14:04 +1000 From: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LOOK AT WHAT DEBIAN HAS! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020906141026.01d9c0c0@pop.ozemail.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020905172122.GB9499@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020905112256.679edc04.johann@broadpark.no> <20020904215349.6b4335da.johann@broadpark.no> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209042027480.87585-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20020905023647.GD76893@vectors.cx> <20020905112256.679edc04.johann@broadpark.no>
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At 20:21 5/09/2002 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas sent this up the stick:
>On 2002-09-05 11:22 +0000, Janine C.Buorditez wrote:
> >
> > you ponder on what you wrote.
> > an aptitude for freebsd would be a freebsd ports management system.
> > stop trolling, a decent font manager for freebsd wouldn't hurt either.
>
>Would anyone who is experienced in both systems (FreeBSD and Debian)
>please explain to me, and others on the list who have no Debian clue,
>what is the functionality of these? Until that is done, the only
>reasonable answer one can give is "I don't know what you're talking
>about". Even after that is explained, one of the most probable
>answers is "FreeBSD doesn't have these because nobody has written
>anything like that for it".
From the package desciptions:
"Defoma, which stands for DEbian FOnt MAnager, provides a framework of
automatic font configuration. An application whose configuration of fonts
requires users' hand can make the configuration process automated through
Defoma, by installing a Defoma-configuration script to Defoma. The script
gets called whenever a font is installed and removed, so that the script
updates the configuration.
Font packages should register their fonts to Defoma in order to have them
configured automatically for applications."
"aptitude is a curses-based apt frontend with a number of useful extended
features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible
manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve
and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and extreme flexibility
and customization.
.
aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing,
and housebroken."
Cheers,
rob
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