Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!

[Miles Bader]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> It is an old Debian system ("sarge") and I find its full screen packaging
> utility "aptitude" too baroque for my taste - it's almost as complicated
> to use as "mutt" (email client), and that amount of complication is
> excessive for a utility I might use two or three times a year.  I want a
> straightforward command line packaging system

Note that aptitude also works as a command line tool, if you give it a
command when invoking instead of just saying "aptitude".
(e.g. "sudo aptitude install XXX" etc)

> so I'm going with gentoo on my next system.

If you want to avoid baroqueness, gentoo may not be the best choice...

-Miles

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