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unusual facts about package management



GEDA

Besides building the programs from source, binary executables for all programs in the gEDA Suite are available from popular package archives; the programs may be installed on many common Linux distributions using package management tools such as apt-get and yum.


see also

.package

Autopackage, a package management system for installing software on Linux systems

Package management system

Ian Murdock has commented that package management is "the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry", that it blurs the boundaries between operating system and applications, and that it makes it "easier to push new innovations ... into the marketplace and ... evolve the OS".