Debian Package of the Day 58
A user writes "The Debian project has started a new webpage: the 'Debian package of the day.' It does what it says — every day another package from the Debian repository is posted with an elaborate description and some nice screenshots. As Debian (and all the other distributions as well) contains way too many packages for it to be feasible to inspect all of them yourself, this is then a nice way of learning about all kinds interesting software packages."
top o' the day (Score:5, Interesting)
Screenshots for all packages? ;-) (Score:1, Interesting)
Just a thought... (Score:3, Interesting)
Now if someone where to be really clever then they would integrate this site into a nice gui package manager and make it available with Ubuntu, or any of the other distro's aimed at new Linux users. It would be nice to get some additional info (screen shots etc..) above and beyond the descriptions that are normally availale when using apt. -- if its already been done then excuse me for not having come across it yet.
idea for enhancement (Score:3, Interesting)
-fragbait
package comparations - with debtags (Score:5, Interesting)
$ apt-cache show vim | grep '^Tag:'
Tag: devel::editor, interface::text-mode, role::program, scope::application, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::editing, works-with::text
then you can search for packages with similar tags
$ debtags search '(works-with::text && use::editing && interface::text-mode)'
and, whoa, you get quite a lot of stuff, and the first entry, abiword-plugins, seems to be mistagged too
HTH
P.S.: Yes, emacs is among the results:
emacs21 - The GNU Emacs editor
[..]
emacs21-nox - The GNU Emacs editor (without X support)
qemacs - Small emacs clone editor with HTML and DocBook editing support
xemacs21-bin - highly customizable text editor -- support binaries
zile - very small emacs-like editor
Not quite new (Score:1, Interesting)
If it is, the question will be: Why did it die back in 2004 (the last article is dated Nov. 15, 2004)? I guess it suffered from not enough people actually adding reviews of packages. As this article http://debaday.debian.net/2007/02/15/we-need-your
Let's see how long it'll be alive this time.
the closest thing is popcon (Score:2, Interesting)
Another, analogous effort (Score:2, Interesting)
Disclamer: I made the following, so this post is technically self-promotion.
(Another Unofficial) Debian Package of The Day (updated hourly) [redsymbol.net]
This verion ("POTH" - Package of the Hour) differs from the article feature ("DEBADAY"), in that it is fully automated (subject to some filters for interestingness; libraries, -dev packages, etc. are filtered out.) DEBADAY produces deeper and more interesting descriptions, since they are written by humans. POTH is done by a software agent, so it has greater breadth. It covers more packages, and also crosslinks them to popularity contest data, etc.