On Fri 16 Jun 2023 at 15:14:43 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > Has aptitude been tamed?
I don't think aptitude ever needed taming, unlike your TERM setting. > I've stayed away from it now for years because its torn the system > down with its idea of dependencies, to doing a reinstall 4 times in > the decade passed. I do not trust it at all, been burned to the ground > too many times. With apt, I was able to remove cups-browsed all by > itself with apt so the brother factory drivers could actually run my > pair of brother printers just now. I have serious doubts aptitude > would have allowed that without nuking 300 other files too. Like the > kernel thats running once. That is not an ooops but nobody seemed to > notice at the time. The arm version seems to be ok, but x86 stuff? You reported running aptitude with the ncurses interface, and with a TERM setting that meant the screen became more and more encumbered with cruft. There's no knowing what characters were being sent to the program that were intended for driving the terminal. You wrote "with aptitude, like mc, whatever terminal its running IN, MUST DO ncurses emulations. And that is compulsory!" In fact, all you have to do to avoid ncurses is to supply an action on the command line. Sorry I can't help with choosing a GUI. I've never seen the point for running such a package manager. Cheers, David.
