On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 18:41 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 06:35:48PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > 0 upgraded, 164 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > Need to get 44.5 MB of archives. > > After this operation, 206 MB of additional disk space will be used. > > I really don't understand why people want a GUI package manager at > all. > The last time I used anything even remotely *close* to a GUI package > manager was dselect, back in the previous century. And that was a > curses > (terminal) interface, not an X11 one. > > In the last two decades, I haven't used or wanted anything fancier > than apt(-get). > > Now, granted, this is just my personal stance. I may be atypical. > That said, what exactly does a GUI package manager offer you, that > you can't get from "apt install thing-i-want"?
Why I use aptitude is exactly because of the curses interface. I can run it from the terminal, but if I want to search for a package or gain some other information on it, such as dependencies, it's all there at a glance. Aptitude install/remove ... whatever, does it all, but I have that information resource there if required. Cheers! -- A Kiwi in Australia, doing my bit toward raising the national standard.
