Re: On Debian and Fedora experiences

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Matej Cepl scripst:
> 	Not only that I am really missing aptitude (for those who don't know --
> ncurses based frontend for apt-get, which allows browsing, searching,
> installation, upgrades, anything you want to do with your packages, plus
> it is able to remeber which packages were installed just to satisfy
> dependencies, so when they are not needed they are automatically removed
> as well). I know about apt-rpm, but aptitude still doesn't work with it --
> mornfall (aka Peter Rockai aka prockai<at>redhat<dot>com) is working but
> so far without much success AFAIK. Don't even think about comparing it to
> pirut/pup -- that's like comparing Porsche to Trabant (for Americans --
> imagine Yugo built from plastic -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant).

And one more I forgot -- I really miss Suggests: and Recommends: Having
aalib required to be installed (take a look at rpm -qi aalib -- do you
think you really need it?) makes me really home-sick after Debian.

Matěj

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