Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-18 Thread donw
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:51:42PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > After less than a week with Debian, I'm simply astounded at the power of the > apt pkg managment system. I'm in the middle of compiling KDE3.1 and when I > come up with a missing part, apt-cache search, apt-get install and BAM I'm in

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:52:26PM -0800, nate wrote: > will trillich Hi, > > isn't redhat implementing apt-get on their stuff these days? > > not that i've seen. I don't count up2date as an apt-get replacement > since it only (appears) to track installed packages. Well up2date and the connecte

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > isn't redhat implementing apt-get on their stuff these days? Yeah, but it makes the pain of updating a Red Hat box less like being crushed by a dying elephant falling over to more like having your skin flayed. RPM has suffered so mu

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 15 February 2003 9:39 am, Vineet Kumar wrote: >It only gets better from there, trust me. I think apt is one of the >highly-visible features that attracts people to debian. Policy is the >real gold that makes the lifers. I'm sure you're correct. However, just now I was compiling kdeg

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-15 Thread nate
will trillich said: > isn't redhat implementing apt-get on their stuff these days? not that i've seen. I don't count up2date as an apt-get replacement since it only (appears) to track installed packages. there's a port of apt-get of course, but without a good archive to back it up, it's usefulne

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-15 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:39:50AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > It only gets better from there, trust me. I think apt is one > of the highly-visible features that attracts people to debian. > Policy is the real gold that makes the lifers. Once you start > to learn more about the system, you reali

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 21:05]: > After less than a week with Debian, I'm simply astounded at the power of the > apt pkg managment system. I'm in the middle of compiling KDE3.1 and when I > come up with a missing part, apt-cache search, apt-get install and BAM I'm in > business

I will never go back to RH

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
After less than a week with Debian, I'm simply astounded at the power of the apt pkg managment system. I'm in the middle of compiling KDE3.1 and when I come up with a missing part, apt-cache search, apt-get install and BAM I'm in business. No RPM searches...god what a blessing! Thanks list, f