[Tfug] Well it's back to Ubuntu...

[Kyle Scofield]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:28:30PM -0700, Brian Vogel wrote:
>>   Just simply saying the apt-get works fantastically without the ncurses
>>   aptitude front end.  As it has been stated aptitude cannot do
>>  everything so why not just use apt-get.

>Well, let's be fair here... that's a little like saying Firefox can't do
>everything so we're better off telnetting to port 80 and conversing with the
>server ourselves.


Wait a sec, you mean you don't manually telnet to port 80 to use the www? You use a browser? I'm guessing you don't telnet to port 25 to send mail either. 

Dang kids, get off my lawn!

Have a Merry Christmas everyone.


--Kyle


PS- I'm also of the belief that if apt-get (or yum) does what you need, why the heck would you need a GUI? Makes no sense to me. It's far quicker to apt-get install foo than manually find it in a list somewhere.
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