On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 20:01 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:47:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> was heard to say: > > Quoting Andrew Sackville-West: > >> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:07:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott > >>> <pslist@ultrasw.com> was heard to say: > >>> > aptitude makes it easy to "plan the updates" > >>> > >>> How so? > >> > >> I'll bite on this... the simple but powerful interface allows me to > >> quickly browse through the proposed changes picking and choosing those > >> I want. Clearly it's an inspired piece of software! ;-) > >> > >> /me wipes stuff off nose... > > > > You forgot to recommend that he should read the documentation... > > Heh. :-) > > I actually am curious to hear what people like about the program, > because I'm (slowly) working out ideas for redesigning the interface > and I don't want to accidentally break useful features. Any breakage > should be fully intentional, that's my motto. > > Hence my oh-so-subtle prodding... > > Daniel Sadly, I have NEVER used aptitude ncurses. Ever since the early days of Potato, when I tried to use it, I would get completely lost. As smart as I am (however smart that is) that interface just does not work the way my brain works. I still don't know how to use it and get frustrated in 30 seconds trying to use it. Nothing against what I am sure is a nice program, it just does not work the way I think. I feel better by sharing, it has made us all better people (and dang it! People like me!) > > -- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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