Re: Big dummy at work again
On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package manager.
> > Not that IMHO Synaptic is that trustworthy. ;-) I have just looked in
> > my /usr/bin. I have firefox-esr and firefox-real. So I have
> > experimented. Firefox-esr is the one aptitude installed, and is
> > Firefox 45.2.0 and Firefox is 47.0, and is the one I installed. I
> > have both in my menu, clearly labelled Firefox-esr and Firefox. I let
> > aptitude do its thing. It has left life simple.
> >
> Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and will be
> until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the whole screen
> instead of leave a kilobyte of text covering 20% of the screen real
> estate. And it been that disaster since I first saw it 18 years ago.
As usual, your rant is in need of some explanation as to exactly
what your problem is.
Cheers,
David.
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