On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:06 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:55:23PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@hotmail.com> [2008 Aug 07 16:38 -0500]: > > > > > > > > > > Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost > > > > with the ncurses interface of aptitude > > > > > > Add a ditto onto to the ditto regarding my own inability > > > to cope with the ncurses interface to aptitude .... > > > > > > To me it seems cumbersome and somewhat cryptic .... > > > > And I think Aptitude works very well and couldn't wait to ditch dselect > > for it. Different strokes and all that. I've had the displeasure of > > being dumped into Synaptic on Ubuntu and friends. I'll take Aptitude > > every time, thank you very much. > > took me a long time to grok the aptitude interface, but I hardly > ever use it directly. Now I'm somewhat comfortable with it and it > works for me, but I'm sure that's a case of me training myself to use > it... > > A And to be sure, I did not mean to rag on aptitude, only that I don't work the way it is meant to work. -- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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