On Wednesday 19 January 2011 00.54:44 Silvio Cesare wrote:
> I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux
> distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is
> automatically generated.
Cool!
Maybe I have missed a pointer or whatever: how did you compute this
similarity? Number of identical files? Or filenames?
I was just wondering: GSoC project:
* run this after every release of a major distribution
* add this info to aptitude/... : if I install a package that doesn't
exist, add this to the search database (not sure what aptitude looks at
right now, exactly, but it already has the infrastructure for proposing a
package if the given name doesn't exist.)
But please make this optional, on small systems apt already is only barely
usable.
cheers
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