>> Also, I had (apparently, completely wrongly) understood that, when >> installing a package with Synaptic, it was the role of Synaptic, as the >> package manager, to ensure that the package was added to the relevant >> menu, in the Applications menu hierarchy. >> >> As I mentioned previously, not every sys admin wants the package executable link added to the menu. I suspect you are looking at this issue as a single user desktop situation, rather than as a multi-seat server situation. Ubuntu is, mostly, crafted to be easy to use for people new to GNU/Linux and who are just using a desktop system for their home computer with just a single user or just the family. A long time joke (somewhat undeserved, yet still amusing), is Ubuntu - an African word for can't install and configure Debian. [Please don't flame me for that, I have an Ubuntu install as well as Debian installs, also other distros for evaluation and I don't hate newbies] The experienced GNU/Linux users who choose Ubuntu don't have a problem with things happening, or not happening, automagically. On the other hand, many Debian installs are for multi-seat servers and, as I mentioned, the sys admin desires more control of configuration and understands, or learns, how to accomplish the task. In that light, I imagine you understand the sanity of the default behaviour of Debian.
Many people don't use a GUI package manager like Synaptic. On the command line, one doesn't need a menu, or at least, nothing more sophisticated than the tab key. >> I apologise for my lack ofknowledge in all of this. >> >> We are all ignorant of a topic until we learn and, these days, most posters don't flame someone for not yet understanding something. > Just a quick additional note; in the Properties information for the > package, in both installations, with the label of Section, in the Common > tab, both packages have the same value; "Games and Amusement". > > So, it would seem logical, that each of the two installations, would > automatically result in the package being added to the Games menu, > within the Applications hierarchy, by virtue of the Section parameter, > having the value, in each case. > > It would seem logical, given one point of view, but as I mentioned previously, that's not the behaviour that I desire from a package manager any more than I want a link to the executable binary automagically added to the desktop. There are more than 1000 Debian developers, worldwide, and they vote as to how things are handled by default, perhaps there is a logical plan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
