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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2.  Help, please!
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:30:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100106133013.GC2447@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4132C2.7020303@gnu.org>

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<acm@muc.de>  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).




  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-06 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-28 17:04 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-28 21:14 ` Karl Fogel
2009-12-28 23:05 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-12-29 20:08   ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-29 20:19     ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-29 20:57       ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-29 23:49         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-12-31 12:06           ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-31 17:04             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-01-03 17:33               ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-01-03 18:16                 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-03 21:56                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-01-04  0:06                     ` Miles Bader
2010-01-04  0:13                       ` Jason Rumney
2010-01-06 13:30                         ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2010-01-04  8:16                     ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-04 16:23                       ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-04 20:42                         ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!) Tassilo Horn
2010-01-05  9:03                           ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages Ulrich Mueller
2010-01-05 20:45                             ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-05 20:45                           ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!) Richard Stallman
2010-01-06  0:10                             ` Jonas Bernoulli
2010-01-06 20:45                               ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-07  8:35                                 ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages Tassilo Horn
2010-01-07 22:49                                   ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-08  0:06                                     ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08  9:30                                       ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 11:20                                         ` Marek Aaron Sapota
     [not found]                                         ` <20100108111454.GC1426@fencepost.localnet>
2010-01-08 11:56                                           ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 12:44                                             ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 14:44                                               ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 15:47                                                 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 15:23                                         ` Yavor Doganov
2010-01-08 15:57                                           ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 16:23                                             ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 16:46                                               ` David Kastrup
2010-01-08  8:56                                     ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 23:01                                       ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-06  7:35                             ` Tassilo Horn

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