[wplug] Package-based distros

Zach Paine zman at wplug.org
Mon Apr 23 20:33:45 EDT 2001


Time to rant about Debian's package management.. it rocks!!  It is a very
painless system.  apt-get install whatever will download and install a
binary package, and apt-get source whatever will download the source for a
package which you can compile with any flags you may want and then install
as a package so you never have to break debian's dpkg system.  It is quite
bomb.

Later,
zman

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