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  From: Kim Hawtin <khawtin@ratbaggames.com>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:02:43 +0930

RE: Apt-get

Richard,

> > thats funny as i find aptitude unnecessarily complicated and 
> > dselect quite straight forward.
> 
> Hmm. that's the first time I've heard anything in favour of 
> dselect... :)

=) 

> > there are only six or seven keys you need to know, 
> > whats so hard with that?
> 
> It's not something you use often, and the keys (from 
> memory) are completely different to the keys for any
> other program. 

well i use apt-get and dselect on a daily basis.
so this may we be the reason, as i have used it since
debian 1.3.x IIRR. so, it may well be just a 
familiarity thing.

> Aptitude is at least similar to vi, 
> and slightly more conventional in its key usage.

ok, i may have to spend a bit more time with aptitude.
it just seemed more complicated that it needed to be
for package dependencies. inspecting package dependencies
in a tree format is cute, feels cumbersome. 

what the hell, i'll go have another play and see =)

cheers,

Kim

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