On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:09:14PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:37, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > Have you ever seen that silly perl script that Mandrake passes as an > > "apt like" package fetcher + installer? "urpmi". Hahah. > > What makes Debian's package management great has not so much to do with > apt itself as it does with the high quality, integration, and > standardization of our packages.
Exactly. It is that which makes apt able to work its wonders, and what ensures that things work _after_ installation. -- - mdz