# Comments on "Involuntary Ubuntu"

There is an interesting article at tbray.org where Tim Bray recounts
his recent [experiences with Ubuntu][1]. He discusses a few things
I've talked about before - one, that [apt-get is Debian/Ubuntu's
main strength][2], and why [something like it should be in
Solaris][3]:

> You know, this has been said a lot, but it bears repeating:
> Apt-get is just so unreasonably fucking great. Why aren’t we using
> it for Solaris updates? I managed to pull together the whole
> witches’ brew of OSS that makes ongoing go without ever leaving
> Synaptic. Oops, not quite true, I cruised past CPAN to get DBI and
> DBD::MySQL, but I’m not sure I needed to, because when I got
> MySQL, I saw a lot of perl-related stuff go flying by.

He's right, he did not need to use CPAN for DBI/DBD. The package
'libdbd-mysql-perl' would have pulled it in for him. 'apt-cache
search dbi mysql' would list relevant packages.

[1]: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/07/31/Ubuntu
[2]: gopher://gopher.unixlore.net/0/articles/historical-blog-posts/20060408-apt-debians-killer-app.txt
[3]: gopher://gopher.unixlore.net/0/articles/historical-blog-posts/20060514-comments-on-switching-from-solaris-to-linux.txt
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