On Saturday 31 January 2009 13:04:21 Valerio Passini wrote: > Alle sabato 31 gennaio 2009, Nick Shaforostoff ha scritto: > > I'm afraid KPackage is maintained no more, > > and I suggested removing it from kdeadmin upstream. > > > > What makes KPackage UI better then the one of Adept (or anything else) for > > you? > > kpackage is the application I was behaved to when I wanted to get a list of > packages > and a description of them. apt-cache search <regexp> I have it aliased to be 'as <regexp>' under root. alias as='apt-cache search'
plus apt-cache show > Another important reason why I liked kpackage was the ability to browse the > installed packages and > even the single files. list packages: dpkg -l <globexp> | grep II list files: dpkg -L <package> also see apt-file. > It was very handy to check for README's, configuration samples and so on. It > was a matter of clicking on the file and having it displayed in konqueror, in > kwrite or inside ark. > That is why I consider it more useful than synaptic. Another feature that I > liked is the ability of > kpackage of displaying at a quick glance any missing file in a package. there is a command line expression somewhere for that. googlable. > Last but not least I have > translated its documentation :) and I'm sorry to see kpackage disappearing. Well, I'm translator myself. A lot of docs bevome obsote with KDE4. > BTW if it's supposed to remove kpackage, I agree that I should use something > different like adept (I > tried it a long time ago and I didn't feel a good impression from it, but now > things have changed > for good). Anyhow adept is still missing the features I had mentioned above. > I hope to have answered > to your question. Yes. thank you for the desired features list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
