Re: package managers problem
On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 18:41 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 06:35:48PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > 0 upgraded, 164 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 44.5 MB of archives.
> > After this operation, 206 MB of additional disk space will be used.
>
> I really don't understand why people want a GUI package manager at
> all.
> The last time I used anything even remotely *close* to a GUI package
> manager was dselect, back in the previous century. And that was a
> curses
> (terminal) interface, not an X11 one.
>
> In the last two decades, I haven't used or wanted anything fancier
> than apt(-get).
>
> Now, granted, this is just my personal stance. I may be atypical.
> That said, what exactly does a GUI package manager offer you, that
> you can't get from "apt install thing-i-want"?
Why I use aptitude is exactly because of the curses interface.
I can run it from the terminal, but if I want to search for a package
or gain some other information on it, such as dependencies, it's all
there at a glance.
Aptitude install/remove ... whatever, does it all, but I have that
information resource there if required.
Cheers!
--
A Kiwi in Australia,
doing my bit toward raising the national standard.
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