On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:40:54 -0400 gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On 6/16/23 18:41, 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"? > > > > . > Like looking at the menu in a fancy restaurant, if you don't have a > menu to read, how that heck are you supposed to know what you want? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. +1 -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
