On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 11:03:59PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: [...]
> Please forgive my ignorance. But from what I've heard, apt and apt-get > manage packages differently, and aptitude does it differently as well. > Why isn't there a ONE WAY for packages to be managed? Actually they all share the database holding the package state (OK, some add some extra bits and pieces, but basically that is it). Some are just frontends which bundle functionality, to take from you the burden of remembering whether you have to say "apt-get install" or "apt-cache search" -- you just say "apt install" or "apt search". See, with projects which are around for a while you don't just change interfaces of basic utilities willy-nilly. This takes some planning and sometimes quite a bit of pain to strike a balance between moving forward (for some value of forward) and not throwing too many users under the bus. > You'd think this > would a high priority for the Debian team. If the answer is, "We don't > want to break stuff from long ago", why not just deprecate things over > time? Debian does have its deprecation policies. That's why. > And why hasn't anyone made a Wayland-native port of Synaptic? Is it > planned? If not, why not? Have at it :-) I'll stay with X [1] thankyouverymuch. Cheers [1] Of course, this is irrelevant. It only wants to illustrate the problem. For a feature to come forward, you need some enthusiastic devels and some users for it. -- t
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