On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:26:55PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > Offer Kaye wrote:
> I'm constantly checking out new software and almost every time I > can find it in Mandrake's repository (which is huge - currently standing > at just over 7GB just for the free version) or one of the other > repositories such as PLF or Texstar's PC-Linux-OS. > >After making the > >switch, I can say, at least based on my personal experience, that > >using an apt based distribution is simply better, hands down. > > > > > From my experience, if you don't need the advanced features of apt, > especially automatic source build, then urpmi is a better tool. What I most sorely miss with urpmi is a decent search capability. Something like 'apt-cache search' . When you have gigs of software oyu can't generally expect to remember the names of all packages. > Specificly regarding the current topic - I still consider software that > does not offer UI for configuration or at least a decent command line > tool, and forces you to edit configuration files by hand, to be inferior :-) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 ? -- Tzafrir Cohen | New signature for new address and | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | new homepage | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | Space reserved for other protocols | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
