On 2015-10-03 at 16:56, Lisi Reisz wrote: > "gdebi is a simple tool to install deb files. It lets you install local deb > packages resolving and installing. its dependencies. apt does the same, but > only for remote (http, ftp) located package repositories. It has a graphical > user interface but can also be used in your terminal." > > I had not gathered the last few words. It is obviously a very useful tool. > But it raises another question. Why is it called "GNOME GUI", which it does > seem to be consistently, if it is neither a Gnome tool nor a GUI one??
There are three relevant packages here: $ apt-cache search gdebi | grep gdebi gdebi - simple tool to view and install deb files - GNOME GUI gdebi-core - simple tool to install deb files gdebi-kde - simple tool to install deb files - KDE GUI The CLI to gdebi is in the gdebi-core package. There are two GUIs available, which are in separate packages, which are labeled appropriately. It would probably be more appropriate if the three packages were named 'gdebi-gnome', 'gdebi-cli', and 'gdebi-kde', respectively, with the unadorned 'gdebi' being either a metapackage or a virtual package. (And possibly with a separate 'gdebi-core' or 'gdebi-common' package for the shared elements, which are currently in the same package as the CLI.) The maintainer has not chosen to do it that way, however, and the current approach does make some amount of sense. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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