On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 03:20 +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > > > > > > Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like? > > > > > > It's a GUI app? > > > > Very funny Ron. Really. > > No, I think he was serious, and I agree with him. Do you want > your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked? > Especially in this nvidia crazed age?
I am equally at home using aptitude install, apt-get, apt-cache or synaptic. I just don't mind a gui now and again, a picture can be worth 1K words, or so I hear. I can actually use vi, irssi, lynx and the lot, I just would prefer not to (on a desktop). > > > -- > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. > (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 > - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. > > -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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