Everything old is new again (and again, and ...)

Everything old is new again (and again, and ...)

Posted Oct 11, 2003 17:10 UTC (Sat) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Everything old is new again (and again, and ...) by maney
Parent article: Synaptic: Point-n-Click Software Management (LinMagAuOrg)

dselect has very unintuitive interface. Normally Enter acts on the currectly selected item, but in dselect it has a global meaning "Confirm, quit (check dependencies)".

aptitude is a bit better in that regard, but the influence of dslelect is still noticeable. I think it's for the same "market", but it still needs a lot of work.

synaptic depends on X, which makes it less useful for system recovery, but allows it to implement an interface better reflecting the concepts of package management.

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