Re: hey

Ken Lai (min-ken.lai@yale.edu)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:50:03 -0500 (EST)

Yep, Debian and apt, all the way!
I had just used apt to upgrade from hamm to slink two days ago; things
worked great, even though it's not officially released yet. The one thing
I still want to see in apt, that is not yet fully implemented, is
concurrent versions.

- Ken

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Dave Bresson wrote:
> As a side note to this thread, I've been paying attention alot lately as
> to the advantages of rpms/packaged binaries versus the tar.gz way of
> compiling your own code and getting more in touch with your system and
> understanding how things work a little better. In my investigations, I've
> read a bit about debian's apt program which as implemented in slink and
> (eventually) in the potatoe dist is in my opinion even easier and better
> to use than redhat's rpm system of packages. Has anyone ever had any
> experience with this?

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