[NTLUG:Discuss] has anyone used Alexandria?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 13:41, Lance Simmons wrote:
> That's one way in which Debian is user-friendly.  I have no idea what a
> module is, or why it should be difficult to keep different modules
> compatible.  But I don't need to know.  Typing in "apt-get install
> whatever" usually gets me what I want, even though I don't have much of
> an idea of how it works.

Red Hat once created a separate CD with a full suite of Perl and an
extensive set of Perl modules all pre-built and with full RPM dependency
related back in the RHL6 or was it RHL7 time-frame?  I can't remember
what the project/product was called but it was pretty sweet.

Red Hat still does a fine job with a "basic" Perl Modules as well as
Python (being that its Anaconda and user suite is all Python/GTK+ based
in RHL7+) in Fedora, but it's no where near the extensiveness of
Debian.  And especially not for newer language sets like Ruby.

Debian is a preferred "packages" distro for developers for good reason.

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