BTW, it's not that synaptic is particularly bad or anything -- there have been other attempts at improved package managers in debian, like "console-apt" and "gnome-apt", and synaptic at least seems more polished than they were.
There's a lot of information to present to (or hide from) the user, and it's _hard_ to do this in a way which is sufficiently informative without being horribly confusing. Debian has a _lot_ of packages, and even more relationships between them... ostensibly simple and familiar approaches can break under the weight of all that information. -Miles -- Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
