about installing packages

[Derek Broughton]

Rogelio Nodal wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>>Ack!  Why?  I've tried asking a number of people about this, but _why_
>>synaptic?  What does it provide that I would find I couldn't live without?
>>I realize this is a predominantly Gnome-user list, so maybe you don't have
>>other GUI options, but for the full GUI KPackage seems much more useful
>>and
>>for anything else it's aptitude.  When I first tried synaptic, it had the
>>virtue of being really fast.  Then they added more features until it got
>>to be as slow as kpackage. :-(
>>  
>>
> Have you tried sudo apt-get install package?
> Just a guess.

A bad one (that wasn't the question I asked).  I grew beyond apt-get months
ago.  Aptitude rules as a command line tool.  What I'm asking is "what is
it about synaptic that makes anybody recommend it"?  Apparently there
_isn't_ a good reason to use it, because every time I ask I get either no
answers or misdirections like this.
-- 
derek