From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please! Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:30:13 +0000 Message-ID: <20100106133013.GC2447@muc.de> References: <20091229205734.GB5097@muc.de> <4B3A957B.9050106@harpegolden.net> <20091231120648.GA2801@muc.de> <4B3CD9A9.9030705@harpegolden.net> <20100103173342.GA1653@muc.de> <87bphbf3zy.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <20100103215647.GC1653@muc.de> <87y6ked98y.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4B4132C2.7020303@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262784427 1065 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 13:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 14:26:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSVuc-0001bV-VQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:26:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33465 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSVud-0006Vd-Fh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:26:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSVrs-000525-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSVrn-0004zS-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:24:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45041 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSVrn-0004zL-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:24:03 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:1876 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSVrm-0000tv-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 1864 invoked by uid 3782); 6 Jan 2010 13:23:59 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E52107.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.33.7]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:23:57 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 2873 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Jan 2010 13:30:13 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B4132C2.7020303@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119519 Archived-At: Hi, Jason, On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:13:54AM +0800, Jason Rumney wrote: > On 04/01/2010 08:06, Miles Bader wrote: > >Alan Mackenzie writes: > >>It is an old Debian system ("sarge") and I find its full screen > >>packaging utility "aptitude" too baroque for my taste - it's almost > >>as complicated to use as "mutt" (email client), and that amount of > >>complication is excessive for a utility I might use two or three > >>times a year. I want a straightforward command line packaging system > >Note that aptitude also works as a command line tool, if you give it a > >command when invoking instead of just saying "aptitude". (e.g. "sudo > >aptitude install XXX" etc) > Additionally, Debian includes apt-get, which is a command line tool > that performs the same tasks as aptitude. It is all these alternatives, with the rather mushy relationships between them, the mass of background stuff you've got to know, and the hidden trapdoors, which put me off Debian. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).