On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:41:08 -0400 Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> 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"? > I run sid on my main workstation, and sometimes it gets in a muddle, with fifty packages not upgradable. OK, if it's a big group of related packages and a key one hasn't been upgraded yet, there's nothing to be done about them. But often another thirty packages can be upgraded, but only in a specific order. I find synaptic much quicker at clearing this kind of logjam than either apt-get or aptitude. It's easy to select half a dozen packages and see easily what will be removed if you try to upgrade, and I once cleared a logjam of about fifty packages that neither apt-get nor aptitude could deal with. It was a matter of upgrading a few at a time, and in a particular order, and I'd have spent all day trying to do that with the other apt tools. And no, I don't like to postpone upgrading sid for too long, particularly at this stage in the lifecycle. -- Joe
