Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: >> Also, "Software Sources" has more use-cases, like enabling or disabling >> automatic security updates, selecting how often it should look for >> updates, adding authenticaton keys and allowing statistical information >> to be sent. This is all unlikely to need a package manager in the same >> usecase. >> >> Personally, I'd prefer if the Software Sources would stay in the menu. >> However, I would not mind for Synaptic to go away... > > I think you may have misunderstood. The Software Sources dialog is > part of Synaptic. The Software Sources menu item is just an extra way > of opening it. It saves you three mouse-clicks, granted, but it also > leads to misunderstandings like this. Synaptic and Add/Remove serves > two different purposes. You cannot use Add/Remove to install a single > package, like you do in Synaptic. You also cannot install a number of > services easily, like Mailserver, LAMP and SSH in one go, like you can > in Synaptic. Synaptic is not comparable to Add/Remove at all, > actually. It's competitors are the commandline tools aptitude, > apt-get, tasksel and editing /etc/sources.list(.d) manually. > > You're a good example of why Software Sources should be removed. You > had to learn how to use that too, but if you'd used the three extra > mouse clicks, you would have had a better change of discovering what a > wonderful application Synaptic is. We have to have a graphical tool > for package management, and Synaptic does a great job.
I'm aware of the differences of the package managers. It's just that I don't need Synaptic, whereas Software Sources is one of my most executed administrative applications (does not matter if it's technically part of Synaptic or not, for the user it appears as a different app). Either I want to install an end-user application, this is what "Add/Remove" does perfectly and IMHO more comfortable than Synaptic. Or I want to install libraries (e.g. for development purposes) or server processes, then I'm already at command-line level. Instructions on Wiki pages always use "apt-get install" rather than Synaptic. I don't want to say that Synaptic is not a good tool. It's just that it fails to fill in a use-case of my daily Ubuntu work. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
