On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 03:13 +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com>: > > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 03:20 퍭㒲䞞阩먭磚, I think he was serious, and I agree with him. Do you want > > > your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked? > > > Especially in this nvidia crazed age? > > > > I am equally at home using aptitude install, apt-get, apt-cache or > > synaptic. I just don't mind a gui now and again, a picture can be worth > > 1K words, or so I hear. I can actually use vi, irssi, lynx and the lot, > > I just would prefer not to (on a desktop). > > You're exceptional. I worry about worst cases, not guys like you. :-) > > GUIs aren't evil or silly, but they're very often unnecessary. > Slackware still can't be bothered to build a gui installer. Why would > they? That's Zenwalk's job. :-) > > I very much like the Debian gui installer (pat on back Joey & friends, > great job, thank you!). It's an elegant interface, the curses > installer accurately translated to gui. I totally agree with you, on all points. > > > -- > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. > (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 > - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. > > -- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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