Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions
Hello,
Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
...
> > I would agree however, that a good description of each package would
> > help you decide what to install.
>
> Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel free
> to pick some packages and rewrite their descriptions; you can post the
> results here (or to debian-devel, if you prefer) for public scrutiny.
I can't speak for Kenneth, but one thing I find is that there are
very little comparative descriptions (or else I haven't found them).
This makes it a bit hard to decide, say, which news transport I want.
Each of them says basically "this is a better news transport program,
replaces c-news". But which one should I get for my system? (Home
computer, regularly dials into two ISPs, doesn't feed anyone.)
Is that roughly what you were complaining about?
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Exactly. The descriptions are not really that bad, but not good
enough for a new user to pick what he needs. I thought that the
debian website had a better package list with a searchable database,
which is the tool that the new user could really use. Also when I try
to install some package obtained by ftp (using dpkg -i) and it
complains of a missing lib or other file I need to know what package
provides the missing file(s).
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