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> 
>>Contrast that with RPM hell (or, Fink hell), and you'll understand
>>how I dare claim that CPAN.pm "just works".
> 
> 
> apt-get is the holy grail of package management that I wasted 8 years trying to achieve with CPAN, rpm and others.

So I understand, I've used but never installed/maintained Debian.
(There are some ports of apt to other Linuxes, but since I in general
despise package management, so I never have tried those, either.)

> apt-get from network install to fully configured server with apache, perl, half a ton of perl modules and a large dollop of graphics stuff in 1 hour. Now thats package management.
> 
> Just my opinion :-)

Does apt do source code package management?  I don't think I will
ever again want binary package management.

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biologist word we use for 'stable'.  It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen

• Paul Orrock 17:49 on 04 Nov 2004
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