[OT][was] sudo, why not su? - Why keep Synaptic

[Derek Broughton]

J.Markoll wrote:

> Derek Broughton a écrit :
>> Not sure what interesting piece of Gnometry installed that for me but it
>> has
>> to be one of the dependencies of synaptic...  It'll be gone soon, since I
>> still haven't found a reason to keep synaptic around :-)

> You can take a few minutes once in a while to browse all the packages
> available from the diverse repositories you've configured, and read
> about the use of this and that. As you configure Synaptic to display
> in a column which repository each package comes from, you have the
> complete information always at hand.

Nobody has _yet_ explained to me how to do that.  So I gave up.

> That's a way to discover applications and tools offline, for exemple,
> additionnally to the other features.
> Installed-Size: 4756
> Not that heavy is it ? :)

It is if you're a kubuntu user.  I just got rid of synaptic, gconf2, gksu,
bonobo, gnomeui, and a bunch of supporting players.  Anything I can do with
synaptic, I can do at least as well with kpackage.  I _really_ wanted to be
able to see which repository the packages came from but it doesn't work...
-- 
derek