Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, "Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com> was heard to say:
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > One of my active anti-goals is making aptitude the best package
> > manager after you enter 500 configuration options to enable all the
> > useful features. (hello, mutt) The new code will be the default
> > behavior, with configuration options to selectively re-enable old
> > behavior for people who prefer it. c.f. the change in the behavior
> > of the installation commands several years ago.
> >
> > Daniel
>
> Daniel,
>
> I would suggest you use EMACS as a front end.
Already been done, and by none less than Junichi Uekawa:
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/apt-mode.html
Sadly, though, there do not appear to be Debian packages of it.
Daniel
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