On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 20:33, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
> > The main reason for my using Debian is that no other mainstream distro I
> > know of is so easy to upgrade. Red Hat, SuSE and others have always
> > built their distros like you're supposed to reinstall when the next
> > version comes out, or pay them money for it. Debian's a refreshing
> > change from that-- you can just tell it to update/upgrade and you're
> > done. The problem is that when you go to do that, if something like KDE
> > has been removed from the distro for some reason, guess what? It takes
> > it off your machine. Yikes!
Folks rave over Debian's apt-get, and seem to forget that Mandrake (an
RPM-based distribution) has urpmi, which works the exact same way.
Heck, if you can find the 'autourpmi' script off the internet or an
earlier release, you can install that, and whenever you enter a command
that isn't installed, it goes out and installs it for you.
SWB
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