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How about portage, or even autopackage?

How about portage, or even autopackage?

Posted Oct 3, 2003 9:53 UTC (Fri) by emj (guest, #14307)
In reply to: How about portage, or even autopackage? by job
Parent article: The Great Package Management Experiment

Well Debian really has a lots of diffrents ways to install packages. You have to use apt-get, dpkg, apt-cache, aptitude or wajig to get everything you want to have. Debian really lacks a tool that will give a good unified interface, but that isn't the UNIX way.. ;-)


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