Re: dselect survey
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:52:05AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Completely and utterly wrong in my case. I'm exactly the sort of
> person that you apparently think should like dselect, but I think
> aptitude is _far_ superior, for both experts and newbies. The
> competition isn't even close.
Except when you face the fact that aptitude uses a very sick kind of
MDI. Sick because there's actually no "MD", you're editing a single
chunk of information using multiple views. It's very hard to figure
out "what just happened" because there's no direct visual feedback.
The other problem with aptitude is touted as a design feature: it tends
to be all-or-nothing. Either you use it always or you don't (automatic
removal thingie). This becomes a problem when multiple persons use
different interfaces for adding and removing packages to the system.
Marcelo
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