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From: Zebee Johnstone
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:57

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In aus.computers.linux on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:10:29 +1000
Bron Gondwana <brong@brong.net> wrote:
> apt-get install build-essential wasn't enough?

I suppose I could have investigated packaging, but then if I wanted
that I'd have gone Debian not Ubuntu,.

> 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)

Couldn't be arsed for a desktop machine.  I've got all that at work
for the RH boxen.  Satellite server, custom packages, custom install.
For a few hundred machines, it is worth it.

> 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.

Yes, took RPM a while to catch up.  

Zebee

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