[LAU] Audio distros

[Simon Wise]

On 17/02/13 14:23, Chris Bannister wrote:
> 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!

It's really about if you prefer mousing around in menus or typing a few words. 
Either way it is easy to get the information you need, and make the choices you 
want.

After finding out the words to type I prefer the typing, or if in a gui then I 
prefer to find out the keyboard shortcuts (either of these means learning 
something rather than searching each time, but layers of tabs and menus will 
seem just as cryptic if they are unfamiliar)

  ... words are just my preferred way of working, they seem less cryptic to me.


Simon