Honestly, what benefit does a GUI installer give over a text one ?
Well, a gui installer could:
display the whole package tree (optional one large list). Those which are installed are marked, so you'll always see whats going on. When clicking on a packet, all information pops up on the right side of the window, including short description, dependencies (in both ways), a checkmark if the package is part of the world file and/or the virtual list or if it's masked.
In the package info window, there are buttons like:
(Re-)Install [+ optional reinstall deps also]
Update
Uninstall [+ optional depclean / clean]
...Of course if one clicks on a dependency, the package view would change to that package, etc. etc.
I could imagine *some* features because i prefer GUI apps, no doubt that the shell tools are needed for rescue-situations or for compiling low-level stuff like glibc.
Cheers..
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