Re: first draft "aptitude howto"
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:50:14AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels was heard to say:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:03:42PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > I see you need to know a lot of keys. I think that is non-intuitive;
> > a full screen interface should have pulldown menus (perhaps with
> > shortcuts), a command line interface has switches.
>
> Well, actually pull down menus are very seldom used with curses applications
> and not very good. A short menu like tin or mutt/elm offers is IMHO enough,
> and I think it is already there...
It's not, and mutt's isn't sufficient (I can never figure out what the
commands do, and I've been using it for a year or more now) I think I'll
probably cut the online help to a short list of the important keys and their
descriptions. Useful descriptions, mind :)
[snip]
> The last functio i am missing is a "install this" function, which avods to
> upgrade others (i use "apt-get install" for that).
Yeah. I've left it off this long mainly because apt-get is sufficient 90%
of the time that I want to do that, or a non-root aptitude to find the package
with apt-get in another terminal.
Daniel
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