>
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:16:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > For this postinstall work, for CD exploration and for selective
> > uninstalls when short of disk space then a GUI is far better than
> > command line. I ever thought that people wanting to do everything
> > with command line or everything with GUI are similar to people who
> > don't know when to use the gun for sparrows and when to use the gun
> > for elephants.
>
> Question: When does one use the elephant gun for sparrows?
>
> Answer: When they want to do rpm work with a GUI interface
>
Being able to distinguish an elephant fro a sparrow is possibly the
skill who is the hardest to acquire for a hunter. Hint: if it is
small and has wings then it is a sparrow, if it is big, grey and has
a trunk then it is an elephant. :-)
For command line versus GUI a practical thumb is what is faster. Look
at my previous message for examples where using a GUI is definitely
faster than using command line. Even when the GUI provides only
minimal functionality like in Glint and Gnorpm and the user has been
using RPM since its inception in 1995.
--
Jean Francois Martinez
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