Re: RedHat vs Debian?
"allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx" wrote:
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>7.1 took about 4 hours. but it finally took debian! i've used apt-get to get
>
>all the packages that i've needed (though apt-get is a bit klunky. for
>instance, i would much prefer it show me what i have that has an upgrade
>path, rather than everything in the world. maybe a choice of windows: a) wha
>t
>i have; b) what i have the needs upgrading and/or has an upgrade; c) items
>that i could install that i don't have that may be usefull to what i have
>installed already (say a gui front end to ipchains, as way of example), d)
>other items that i don't have, but are available (say i have a cdrw, but no
>cdrw software), and finally, e) everything else.
dselect will do a fair bit of this, so long as you are careful not to hit
a key until you really, really mean it...and no keybounces either!
It sorts like this:
1. new packages
2. upgraded existing packages
3. not-upgraded packages
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