On Thu 03 May 2007 09:35:05 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Well frankly this is crap. synaptic is a user friendly front end to > apt-get, just as yast tries to be a user friendly front end to rpm. With > ubuntu, or mepis (both apt based) you get a desktop that works. Its a > fact, live with it.
Having a bad day? He said apt-get, not $FANCYGUI. Fact is, no-one coming from 'doze will start to use Linux when the package management is command-line based, whether that is called apt, dpkg, rpm, apt-get, who cares, it's not gonna happen. Live with that. If you say A and non-obviously mean B, ... Well, saying "yast is a user-friendly front-end to rpm, therefore rpm is a really good thing for getting Linux on the desktop" is as daft as your reply. I venture to say that the underlieing package format is of little relevance for that, the GUI has to work (whichever that is), the rest is a don't-care. Nowhere did I say that .deb-based desktops don't work, so telling me off for it is missing it a bit. And I haven't seen an apt package yet, but there are plenty of .debs around. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
