> I really don't understand why people want a GUI package manager at all.
I always use the plain "batch command line" tools like `apt` or `aptitude`, indeed (and not the ncurses UI of `aptitude` which I found difficult to use when I tried it). But I think the reason is quite simple: while most people are very familiar with the "GUI language" (i.e. the conventions of what means what and how you interact with the various elements) because it's quite standardized across most devices nowadays, most computer users are not familiar with the unix command line language nor with the ncurses UI language (which is not even standardized, so every ncurses application has to be learned individually). Stefan