Re: Please remove Software Sources from the menus, it's destructive.

2008-02-26 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 26/02/2008, Andreas Schildbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: There is also the graphical Add/Remove Applications, which I think is much easier to use if you want to install an application. Also, Software Sources has more use-cases, like enabling or disabling

Re: Please remove Software Sources from the menus, it's destructive.

2008-02-26 Thread Denis Washington
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 14:41 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: On 26/02/2008, Andreas Schildbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: There is also the graphical Add/Remove Applications, which I think is much easier to use if you want to install an application. Also,

Re: Please remove Software Sources from the menus, it's destructive.

2008-02-26 Thread Jan Claeys
Op dinsdag 26-02-2008 om 14:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jo-Erlend Schinstad: I think you may have misunderstood. The Software Sources dialog is part of Synaptic. Technically, it's *not* a part of Synaptic, but Synaptic uses it when it's available... -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-desktop

Re: Please remove Software Sources from the menus, it's destructive.

2008-02-26 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: Also, Software Sources has more use-cases, like enabling or disabling automatic security updates, selecting how often it should look for updates, adding authenticaton keys and allowing statistical information to be sent. This is all unlikely to need a package

Re: Please remove Software Sources from the menus, it's destructive.

2008-02-25 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
On Monday 25 February 2008 04:46:32 Tony Yarusso wrote: I appreciate having the option there, since I don't actually use Synaptic, but like having a handy way to edit the sources list. Going through Synaptic just takes more clicks... I am of the same opinion. There should be an easy and quick

Re: Please remove Software Sources from the menus, it's destructive.

2008-02-25 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 25/02/2008, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008 04:46:32 Tony Yarusso wrote: I appreciate having the option there, since I don't actually use Synaptic, but like having a handy way to edit the sources list. Going through Synaptic just takes more

Re: Please remove Software Sources from the menus, it's destructive.

2008-02-24 Thread Karel Prikkebeen
Op zaterdag 23-02-2008 om 10:40 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jo-Erlend Schinstad: We now have four ways of adding a repository; add it as a line in /etc/apt/sources.list, as a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, using Software Sources in the System Administration menu, or in Synaptic. This

Re: Please remove Software Sources from the menus, it's destructive.

2008-02-24 Thread Tony Yarusso
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Karel Prikkebeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op zaterdag 23-02-2008 om 10:40 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jo-Erlend Schinstad: We now have four ways of adding a repository; add it as a line in/etc/apt/sources.list, as a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d,