[Malvern] Available Packages.

[andy at dragonfly.demon.co.uk]

>>>>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, "Guy" == Guy Inchbald wrote:

  Guy> Geoff Bagley <geoff.bagley at btopenworld.com> writes

  Guy> I guess most free distros have less effort to call on than Debian, so
  Guy> need to keep a slimmer goodies CD. I'd also suspect that many embody
  Guy> assorted personal crusades, and filter-out packages accordingly, such as
  Guy> being only GNOME or only KDE, with or without Mozilla, etc. Maybe niche
  Guy> markets have something to do with it too.

Ummm, I'm note sure which distribution(s) you mean but I havn't seen one like 
that. Slackware has an extensive set of packages (look in /var/log/packages for 
ones that are installed on your system. Then look at PACKAGES.TXT on the distro 
CD)

  Guy> AIUI Slackware is a one-man operation, aimed at the expert system builder
  Guy> who wants to install their chosen apps their way. A wad of pre- supplied
  Guy> goodies would be both impractical and little-used.

It is true to say that slackware doesn't hold your hand as much as some other 
distros, but it is not difficult to install and DOES have a large package 
collection. Besides building an application yourself consists of typing a tar 
command followed by "./configure; make; make install" 90% of the time.

  Guy> Why so few distros make anything much of apt-get is beyond me. Maybe
  Guy> they're offended that rpm management has to be grafted on top, or maybe
  Guy> they're trying to differentiate their product.

Slackware - pkg system
Redhat - rpm's
Gentoo - emerge system
OpenBSD/FreeBSD - ports and packages
etc etc etc

Who's to say that apt-get is the best? How does it compare to gentoo's emerge 
system for instance?

l8z

andy

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