On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:45:18AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >>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. > > > > > Oh, you mean - like urpmq ?
urpmq is 'apt-cache search -n' . apt-cache search also searches the description. 'apt-cache search jabber' will also list gaim and kopete. > also check out the large search box at the > top of the rpmdrake interface - you can't miss it :-) I didn't deal with rpmdrake much, but I vaugely recall it wasn't there as well. > > >>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 (Which I gave earlier as an example to Ira of a UI that doesn't help the user much more than editing files) > > > >? > > > > > Not really - I was ranting of the inability to configure apt itself: you > either use the apt-config which is anoyingly unfriendly and/or you have > to edit source lists by hand. Please compare to competing products. apt-setup (This is also what is run at system install time) -- 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]
