On Oct 29, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Also, I was trying to gently point out that there's more to aptitude
than the command-line. Excluding generic shared code, the rest of
aptitude is about 6 times larger than the command-line interface,
and it
would be nice to think people occasionally use all that stuff. :-) I
occasionally notice people writing that they just discovered
aptitude's
curses interface after using it for ages, so I know that this isn't
universally known.
Ahhhh! I see. You were doing a little marketing for the CUI. :-)
I actually knew about the curses interface before I ever tried the
command-line... and like it more, since it has more powerful
features. But then again, I was coming from dselect, and very used to
that curses interface years and years ago.
I think the niftiest feature (and one that still has me scratching my
head as to how you accomplished it) is the MOUSE control in curses
over SSH from a WINDOWS box?! That's amazing.
(In case you're not sure what I mean... get on a Windows box, fire up
PuTTY (I'm sure PuTTY is also "helping" in this scenario somehow) and
then click on the menu items in the curses interface with a mouse.
Whoa... it works? I stumbled across that by accident one day, and
it's one of my favorite things to show programmers who think they're
really good curses programmers... "Can you make your app do THIS?"
Heh heh. Wild.)
aptitude is by far one of the best package management tools out
there. Newbies and folks really stuck in the graphic-oriented/desktop
user world may like synaptic better, but for just getting things done
-- aptitude wins hands down, almost all the time.
--
Nate Duehr
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