[LAU] Audio distros

[Chris Bannister]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:04:24PM -1000, david wrote:
> On 02/16/2013 05:10 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >Of course, if you were running a truly minimum desktop, you don't even
> >need synaptic because apt-get is installed anyway.
> 
> I find synaptic a much-easier way to manage packages than the
> cryptic command lines of apt-get or dpkg. For instance, I can easily
> see what a particular package recommends and decide if I want to
> also include one or more the recommendations.

That what "apt-cache policy <pkgname>", and "apt-cache show <pkgname>"
are for. I don't see how you can call the command lines crptic!

Also my comment was just pointing out that if you have synaptic
installed you can't honestly claim that you have a "truly minimum
desktop"

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