Re: [Synaptic-devel] obsolete and locally installed, seems mistaken

[Albert]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 14:21, Richard Bos wrote:
> Op woensdag 14 januari 2004 09:25, schreef Panu Matilainen:
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> > "What the heck is apt?" If you have an end user using synaptic to
> > install packages [s]he might never have even heard of apt and will
> > be just confused. I'd suggest against these variants.

As the user whose question triggered this thread, I thought I would 
offer some non-technical feedback.  (1)  A synaptic user who doesn't 
know that synaptic is a GUI for get-apt is unlikely to understand 
anything he is looking at anyway and (2) my personal preference is 
"Non-apt package" or "Non-synaptic package." 

I suspect that the typical user of SuSE started out with YAST for 
package managment, as I did.  Apt/Synaptic only came to my attention 
after installing from FTP and then reading SuSE mail lists.  So, from 
my perspective, the bulk of my packages were installed automatically by 
YAST and only a few, so far, have been installed automatically via 
Synaptic.  To me a "manual" installation is one that does not involve 
RPM package management at all, but rather compiling and installing 
tarballs.

I know anything from a single user is highly anecdotal, but I thought I 
would just throw my opinion into the mix.

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