Re: Web repo browser

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:32 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Zhukov Pavel wrote:
> > Does we have something like http://packages.ubuntu.com ?
> 
> Not that I know of.  There's repoview, but it has no capability to
> search.  There's also the PackageDB, but right now that's mostly for
> developers to manage permissions and such on the packages.  It may
> grow the ability to display more user-focused information, but I don't
> if that's planned for anytime soon.

> The Debian package database (which Ubuntu uses), is fairly handy. 
Actually I find it not that handy. It is obscure how you add third party
software the the Ubuntu repo list. Where are the Dell wireless programs
found?

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