On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 06:08:44PM -0500, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 10-Jun-07, 17:47 (CDT), Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since then, it seems like most users have switched to apt-get and > > synaptic, with hardly anyone using aptitude or dselect any more > > Really? I'd have guessed that most people used aptitude. I can't imagine > anyone preferring synaptic to aptitude. Of course, I don't really > understand why anyone prefers [any graphical MUA] to mutt, or [any > graphical newsreader] to trn. I mean, GUIs are nice for things you don't > use every day, but for serious work, they're so damn slow and klutzy.
Well, that might be just my general pessimism rearing its ugly head :). My impression has been that aptitude wasn't getting very many *new* users, but it might just be that aptitude users are a self-sufficient bunch and don't email me with questions. Come to think of it, my sense of the number of aptitude users fell off dramatically after I wrote the user's manual and put in answers to all the questions I kept getting... > Regards, > Steve the hopelessly out-of-date Hey, I resemble that remark. :) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
