On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:03:47AM +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > upgrade path for two releases now, with its Recommends: handling being a > > major reason for this. I'd be surprised if there weren't at least *some* > > users switching to it as a result. > > > Developer users probably. The ones that resist are more non-developer > users. I'm constantly being annoyed at work with so-called systems > administrators pinging /me about "my Debian box upgrades badly" which > is nearly always the consequence of the use of apt-get for upgrades. > > And I can definitely confitm that, when one just answers "read the > bloody release notes and learn about aptitude", the surprise is often > very high when people discover that the recommended tool is aptitude > and not apt-get. > > There are so many examples all around the web with various apt-get > calls and pretty few with aptitude. In these days where googling > becomes a synonym of "read the documentation", it hurts badly. > > Another widely misunderstood feature of aptitude is the ability to > handle packages installed as dependencies. It's pretty often badly > understoood and leads to horror stories floating around of "aptitude > wants to remove half of the system" while the issue is just the user > not understanding the documentation that explains how to switch > properly from apt-get to aptitude.
The fact is : users don't read documentation. Software should be designed considering this fact. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
