[LAU] Audio distros

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sun Feb 17 13:18:05 UTC 2013


On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:23:23 +0100, Chris Bannister  
<cbannister at slingshot.co.nz> 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!
>
> 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"

If you don't know the name off a program or you even don't know, if such a  
program you're looking for does exist, Synaptic can be very helpful. For  
such a task it's easier to use, or at least more comfortable to use.


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