Comparison to other package managers for new users (was: Re: Deprecating port list)

[C. Florian Ebeling]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> Olivier Le Floch wrote:
>> On 12 mars 09, at 18:41, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>>
>>>> If you are concerned that new users who are already familiar with
>>>> different packagement systems have a hard time to get used to
>>>> 'port', we
>>>> could create a wiki section which lists equivalent commands for other
>>>> systems.
>>> I like this idea.
>>
>> I like it too ! I can help out with the Debian/Apt/DPKG section.
>
> Not that this idea gets lost, let's just start a wiki page. Yet I can't
> decide for a good name, MacPortsComparedToOtherPackageManagers sounds a
> bit clumsy.

Its a bit of an introduction for already quite knowledgable users, isn't it?
Maybe PowerUsersGettingStarted, or PowerUsersIntro would make sense...
The focus should be usage, and not comparision anyway, shouldn't it?

Florian


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