[ale] linux recommendations

[james at sumners.ath.cx (james at sumners.ath.cx)]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:04:53PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> You can search the following criteria:
> 
> Name, Summary, Description, Provides, Requires.
> 
> Further you can specify the search mode as:
> 
> contains, begins with, exact match, use wild cards, use regular expressions.
> 
> I've not seen any package management system that is this flexible.  This 
> is just the software install portion of yast.  It's a unified system 
> management system.

Then install some Debian distro on a box and play with it. That type of
searching is not unique to Yast.

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