17 Feb
2013
17 Feb
'13
8:01 a.m.
On 17/02/13 14:23, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:04:24PM -1000, david
wrote:
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
On 02/16/2013 05:10 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
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! 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.