aptitude command line - why?

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:06:33AM +0100, John Levin wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2004, at 23:30, Pizbit wrote:
> >My guess is that it's a nice GUI interface whereas aptitude requires a
> >terminal and is less 'userfriendly'. Having a nice GUI helps people
> >find what they want to find, menus are nifty and save time in helping
> >someone use the program to do something insead of saying "press this
> >key, that key and then the this one" one can say "click that then
> >that". Most find it easier to remember things with visual clues than
> >remembering keys.
> 
> Having just been struggling with aptitude on a fresh Debian install, I 
> can say without fear of contradiction that the aptitude interface is 
> NOT intuitive.

After trying it for a while, I'm even surprised that people advocate it
as a usability win over dselect. aptitude's UI is a nightmare.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]