aptitude command line - why?

[John Levin]

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.

Viva Synaptic!

John