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On 24 Oct 2006, at 03:11, Sean Conner wrote: > apt-get, emerge, yum, ports, they're all hateful. > > GenericUnixPrompt> yum install foobar > Sorry, I can't find that package. > > What? I can't just use the generic name by which *everybody* calls > it to > get the latest and greatest? No no nooooo! I have to search > through the > database to find the *exact* version string you compare against. > > GenericUnixPrompt> yum install foobard-stable-4.3.2.4.x86.bin My favourite version of this hate is 'dig' on Debian, it's a popular program, so in the fucked up crazy world i'd live in, i'd expect apt-get install dig to work. but of course ... E: Couldn't find package dig now I really wouldn't mind if dig wasn't the package name but someone had say made dig an alias to the right package. however i seem to recall that dig was part of bind and has been released under bindtools on some platform. (i'll skip the apt-get line and the inevitable E: line). of course its actually under dnsutils. oh and if you are looking for traceroute, don't bother looking under pingutils or netutils - traceroute is available as traceroute, you see they like to set you up good and proper before they roger you. G. p.s. and lets not even go into the pain that is trying to use CPAN and a package manager. p.p.s. if the above leads into a 'perl sucks' thread, so help me i'll make the culprits use more software as punishment ;-).There's stuff above here
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