[NTLUG:Discuss] has anyone used Alexandria?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 08:49, Lance Simmons wrote:
> Dependency problems of the sort you describe are what led me a couple of
> years ago to move to Debian.

I don't think any distro will catch up to what the Debian community has
built up around Perl, Python, Ruby and other scripting languages with
their extensive module sets.

I'm a Fedora user and I have to admit that.  Once you start entering
scripting language-specific modules, it becomes a manual PITA.  Red Hat
tries to include a number in Fedora Core, but it's still not the same.


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