Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 03:20 +0200, s. keeling wrote: > > > > 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).
You're exceptional. I worry about worst cases, not guys like you. :-) GUIs aren't evil or silly, but they're very often unnecessary. Slackware still can't be bothered to build a gui installer. Why would they? That's Zenwalk's job. :-) I very much like the Debian gui installer (pat on back Joey & friends, great job, thank you!). It's an elegant interface, the curses installer accurately translated to gui. -- 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
