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I would compare this to Debian's apt facilities.  Though I haven't
personally used Debian I can still get away with comparing such:).  I
recently used swaret to upgrade one of my boxes from 9.0 to 9.1 and it
was slicker than owl shit!:)

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:21:04AM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hmmm, so would these dependency tracking tools now put tgz packages on
> a level equal to deb or rpm, or not yet?
> 
> Greg
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