Re: A Question About Aptitude
BTW, it's not that synaptic is particularly bad or anything -- there
have been other attempts at improved package managers in debian, like
"console-apt" and "gnome-apt", and synaptic at least seems more polished
than they were.
There's a lot of information to present to (or hide from) the user, and
it's _hard_ to do this in a way which is sufficiently informative
without being horribly confusing. Debian has a _lot_ of packages, and
even more relationships between them... ostensibly simple and familiar
approaches can break under the weight of all that information.
-Miles
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Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it
has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia
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