Debian flamewar (was: OpenOffice doc...)

[Cole Tuininga]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:11 -0500, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 10:41 -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote:
>
>   Okay, here's at least some answers.  You asked if yum had the
> equivalent of "apt-cache search".  Well, I haven't used apt in a while,
> but does what it looks like it does, then, yes, the version of yum
> available in Fedora Core 3 has a "yum search" function which will do a
> glob and return a list of matching packages.

That's close to what I was talking about.  The really neat part (IMHO)
about apt-cache search is that it doesn't just do a glob search on
package names, it does a glob search on the files *within* the
packages.  

As an example, let's say I happen to know that in order to get a remote
machine to handle X forwarding with ssh, I need the xauth command.  But
I'm not really sure in what package I would find xauth.

 $ apt-cache search xauth
xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients
xvfb - virtual framebuffer X server

Sounds like xbase-clients is what I want.  This is the thing that kinda
"wowed" me about apt when I first started playing with debian.  I'm
imagining that yum probably has a similar ability though.

[snip interesting comments on apt-get's role in the rpm world]

I actually hadn't realized yum was written in python, though I probably
should have figured it out.  As you say, the RH install/configuration
team sure seems to be endeared towards the language.  For my part, I
can't blame 'em.  ;)

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