[PLUG] "Gender" issues

[James B Newby]

I put debian on my main machine over the summer.  After using it for a 
week or so, I put Slackware back on.  When I did apt-get update and 
upgrade, it broke things.  Granted, I am told that I should have used 
testing rather than unstable.

	Another complaint I have is that the advanced package management tool, (I 
forget what it's called) is not very intuative, and it seemed to be 
overly tedious.  I had to go with the less-advanced install.  There 
didn't seem to be an option to just install EVERYTHING like there is in 
Slack.  As a result, I couldn't compile tarballs (as I am apt to do), 
unless I hunted down and installed all the proper dev packages, which 
was too tedious.  Have things changed?

-James

Matt Wallace wrote:

> has anyone ever gotten Debian to work and then switched to
> some other distro?  I'm interested to hear legitimate complaints about
> things other than the installer.

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| James B. Newby | newbyjb@siu.edu     |
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