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On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:01:04 +0100, Simon Wise

wrote:

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> On 17/02/13 14:23, Chris Bannister wrote:

>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:04:24PM -1000, david wrote:

>>> On 02/16/2013 05:10 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:

>>>> Of course, if you were running a truly minimum desktop, you don't even

>>>> need synaptic because apt-get is installed anyway.

>>>

>>> I find synaptic a much-easier way to manage packages than the

>>> cryptic command lines of apt-get or dpkg. For instance, I can easily

>>> see what a particular package recommends and decide if I want to

>>> also include one or more the recommendations.

>>

>> That what "apt-cache policy", and "apt-cache show"

>> are for. I don't see how you can call the command lines crptic!

>

> It's really about if you prefer mousing around in menus or typing a few

> words. Either way it is easy to get the information you need, and make

> the choices you want.

>

> After finding out the words to type I prefer the typing, or if in a gui

> then I prefer to find out the keyboard shortcuts (either of these means

> learning something rather than searching each time, but layers of tabs

> and menus will seem just as cryptic if they are unfamiliar)

>

>   ... words are just my preferred way of working, they seem less cryptic

> to me.

Using apt and other CLI tools for DEBs IMO is less comfortable. A really

nice to use CLI tool is Arch's pacman.

On DEB and RPM based distros I prefer a GUI and for Arch I don't use a

GUI. However, we have the choice to use, what fits best to our tastes.

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