On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:21:41PM -0800, evenso wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:30:40AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > . . . > > > > I use aptitude (which will grow a GTK interface in Squeeze) for all my > > package > > management, but I'm glad to see APT get more featureful. It's also nice to > > see Aptitude work more seamlessly with APT. > > > . . . > > I am apprehensive about that GTK interface. It doesn't look ready to me. > > Mine comes up with a terminal spouting lines like > > libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id '_Forget New Packages' > > for all the menu items. > > Inevitably the window freezes and stops redrawing on some function and I > have to "killall aptitude". Last time it was when I tried to open a > "dependencies" tab within a package info dialog. It froze on "parsing > changelog." I haven't completed a session with aptitude GTK since it was > only available in experimental.
OK. Turns out I am not patient enough. If I just do something else and forget about the time. The window does come back, task completed. > > It is a great looking thing: the info access of Synaptic, the functions of > Aptitude. > > I'll hang on to aptitude-curses out of familiarity for a year or more > anyway. > > I am perfectly happy with aptitude-curses, and apt-get/aptitude at the > command line. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110125233637.GA12280@Europa.office
