Alexander Vlasov wrote:
Have you tried aptitude?
Yes, but it is neither a cli nor a gui. It's more of a "terminal program".
In addition, it exposes the internal of the underlying packaging system,
something I tend to disagree with.
However, it might be nice to have a similar terminal program like that
for pkg(5) for users that don't want a gui, but don't want to have to
type everything out (cli).
aptitude, however, is limited in what it can do by the underlying
package system. As such, it's search functionality is not as expressive
as pkg(5).
The three things I see in it that would be nice to have for pkg(5) are:
* changelog view (this is already needed for OpenSolaris supported
releases; already filed as RFE 7923)
* purging of configuration files for packages (I've filed RFE 8269 for this)
* ability to show reverse dependencies (packages that depend upon a
specific package; already filed as RFE 2713)
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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