On 04/16/2016 08:13 PM, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 16/04/2016 19:47, Noel Torres a écrit : >> >> I regularly use aptitude's CUI (I use to name it as text-mode GUI). >> Mostly because it has that wonderful "Mark as automatically installed" >> mode, that allows packages to be more easily updated or removed. > > This feature also exists in synaptic :-) >
I like `l`imiting the package view and `/`searching for specific packages. How's that in Synaptic? `e`xamine mode allows me to explore dependencies in a quite efficient way. Exploring new packages, traversing their dependencies, etc. is quite instructive. But aptitude is far from a great GUI. I'm confused between apt, apt-get, aptitude, dpkg, apt-cache, etc. That's a lot of complicated programs with divergent interfaces that overlap a lot. I'd like a simple interface to the system packages that doesn't require looking at the manual or waiting 10 years to master. Something like git. No wait, self-documenting, not too many commmands: a high-level interface with a complete API for scripting under the hood. Interactive mode needs to be helpful to humans. Any recommended aptitude settings that you feel should be default? == hk -- _ _ We are free to share code and we code to share freedom (_X_)yne Foundation, Free Culture Foundry * https://www.dyne.org/donate/ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
