Re: [ANNOUNCE] aptitude 0.5.0 released
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>
> I've finally released aptitude 0.5.0 into experimental. The main
> change here is that it's the first release containing the GTK+ frontend.
> You can find a longer description of the release (with a screenshot)
> here:
>
> http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/aptitude-0.5.0-released/
>
> To forestall one question I got earlier today: the next release will
> split the GTK+ binary into a separate package. There were some
> problems with the build process in this release that made it difficult
> to split them, and there wasn't any point in working around them since
> this is just a development release, and the new frontend is the main
> reason to install this version.
>
Well, I installed it as soon as it was available. I haven't used it so
much, but I confess I did not like the GTK+ interface very much. And I'm
not one of those people who always prefer the console or text apps. Yet
nothing that couldn't be solved...
First, I could not find a way to display packages separated by category
like the ncurses UI. While sometimes that is unnecessary, there are
other times (such as when a lot of packages is displayed) that it can be
very useful.
The dashboard view, showing upgradeable packages is nice, but there is
no way to know the current version and the version available. Well,
actually the available version is shown in the changelog for the
selected package, unless it's not an official debian package.
Still at the dashboard, only summaries are shown, not package
descriptions. I really miss the split screen interface that always shows
the description of the package selected.
The detailed package view does not seem to show "Packages which depend
on this package", which is a very useful information to know why the
hell do I need this specific package.
In the same view, depends, suggests and recommends could have different
icons (as in packages.debian.org).
Another minor glitch is that there is no clear (at clear not clear
enough) indication that an install/uninstall process has finished.
--
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br
http://move.to/hpkb
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