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In aus.computers.linux, on 16 Jul 2008 12:47:41 GMT
Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@gmail.com> wrote:
>  In aus.computers.linux on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:04:53 +1000
>  Bron Gondwana <brong@brong.net> wrote:
> >
> > Mostly it's what you know.  I'm a Debian admin since 2000, was Redhat
> > before then.  Mostly I preferred Debian when I switched, which is why
> > I've moved to Ubuntu, because it's Debian based.  There are some
> > things about it that annoy me, but I haven't had any difficulty finding
> > dev libraries.  Sure they're differently named than Redhat, because
> > the Debian family use different names.
> >
> 
>  The problem was more that I couldn't specify a group, I had to find
>  individual packages.

apt-get install build-essential wasn't enough?

We build our own meta packages at work that allow you to install
everything a class of server needs with a single package (which
pulls in things like the "base" package, specific machine packages,
etc)

Along with an apt repository, it's pretty trivial.  I suspect yum
can do similar things as well now, but Debian had this back in 2000
while Redhat didn't.  One of the reasons I switched.

Bron.