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Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid



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.


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Damon L. Chesser
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