[Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools

[Tim Cutts]

On 17 Oct 2007, at 10:30 am, andrew holway wrote:

> Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed.
>
> $apt-cache search foo | grep bar
>
> everyone I work with however prefers yum. They regard Debian as being
> a bit backward.

I'm not familiar with yum, so I can't really comment.  However, apt- 
cache is of course the "previous" generation of package management  
tools, and these days aptitude is recommended instead.  I guess you  
could say that apt-{get,cache} are to aptitude as apt-rpm was to  
yum.  I guess these things are always likely to leap-frog each other,  
as each distro sees what's good and bad in the current tools  
available with other distros, and copies/improves those features as  
appropriate.

I've been reading the aptitude documentation this morning, as it  
happens, and there's all sorts of useful stuff it can do above what  
apt-cache could manage, and it's solved a number of long-standing  
problems I've had...  in particular its search functionality is  
*much* improved over apt-cache.

Tim


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