Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> a tapoté :
> Gentlemen, after I installed "Debian GNU/Linux", I found I had to take
> extra steps to get the GNU version of a program installed, as some
> other leading brand alternative was in its stead.
>
> So what is the single command to apt-get install all the GNU versions
> of everything?
>
> Last year I discovered mawk sitting there until I banished it away with
> apt-get install gawk.
>
> Yesterday I realized I had been using mailx all this time while GNU's
> mailutils were sitting unused.
>
> Do I look in Packages.gz for Conflicts:, and then look in Description:
> for "this is the GNU version of..."?
>
> What other other leading brands programs are sitting on my computer
> when I could have been using a genuine GNU program?
>
> What genuine GNU programs should I defer, lest e.g. messages get trunc
Maybe a meta-package with appropriate depends could do the job?
I must admit that your mail just brought me to notice the presence of
mailutils, while I was using mailx too.
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