On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:01:04 +0100, Simon Wise <simonzwise@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 17/02/13 14:23, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:04:24PM -1000, david wrote:
On 02/16/2013 05:10 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
Of course, if you were running a truly minimum desktop, you don't even
need synaptic because apt-get is installed anyway.
I find synaptic a much-easier way to manage packages than the
cryptic command lines of apt-get or dpkg. For instance, I can easily
see what a particular package recommends and decide if I want to
also include one or more the recommendations.
That what "apt-cache policy<pkgname>", and "apt-cache show<pkgname>"
are for. I don't see how you can call the command lines crptic!
It's really about if you prefer mousing around in menus or typing a few
words. Either way it is easy to get the information you need, and make
the choices you want.
After finding out the words to type I prefer the typing, or if in a gui
then I prefer to find out the keyboard shortcuts (either of these means
learning something rather than searching each time, but layers of tabs
and menus will seem just as cryptic if they are unfamiliar)
... words are just my preferred way of working, they seem less cryptic
to me.
Using apt and other CLI tools for DEBs IMO is less comfortable. A really
nice to use CLI tool is Arch's pacman.
On DEB and RPM based distros I prefer a GUI and for Arch I don't use a
GUI. However, we have the choice to use, what fits best to our tastes.
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