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Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>,
	"M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, naddy@mips.inka.de,
	Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:50:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> Someone demoed the Debian package system to me at USENIX and it
> appears
> it does have this functionality.

The Debian system is pretty hard to beat in just about all areas. Their
apt-get facility with the commands "update" and "dist-upgrade"
automatically resolves dependencies, downloads the packages and
installs them (with pre/post config script) in one swoop.

It's DB driven, so you can do stuff like query what file a package
belongs to, etc... The package quality is very good and well maintained.
It's for that reason that I still use Debian/Linux as my workstation.

bill


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