Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:03:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I see you need to know a lot of keys. I think that is non-intuitive; a full screen interface should have pulldown menus (perhaps with shortcuts), a command line interface has switches. Well, actually pull down menus are

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:33:43AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: (c) Copyright 2000, Bernd Eckenfels, Germany Please don't assert copyright without including a license. Actually there is no difference if the line is present or not, as long as i dont claim otherwise it is my intelectual

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
(I'm also a first-time aptitude user) Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Remark: I think I would find the overloading of the '-' key confusing. Please consider using a different key for hold operations. 'h' seems intuitive but might be pressed by novices as an attempt to get help.

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 29-Mar-00, 09:00 (CST), Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I'm also a first-time aptitude user) Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Remark: I think I would find the overloading of the '-' key confusing. Please consider using a different key for hold operations. 'h'

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With those two keys you usually will type 'u' and then 'f' in aptitude to reset it to its default working mode. In that mode you have a list of: If you have a packe selected, you will get information about it in the status

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
Here's my input. It is written from the perspective of someone who has never even run aptitude -- but that should be okay, since that is your target audience. :) On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:32:39AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: aptitude (c) Copyright 2000, Bernd Eckenfels, Germany Please

first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, need to spell check it, but i guess it might be helpfull anyway: aptitude (c) Copyright 2000, Bernd Eckenfels, Germany aptitude is a front-end to apt and dpkg, the Debian GNU/Linux Package Management tools. It tries to provide a nice user interface to every-day package management on