Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[anthony baldwin]

Graham Todd wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2009 23:10:21 +0200
> Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
> 
>> People still buy boxed software in your country?
>> Synaptic is good, but not great. It could be better.
>> Also, the fact that there is so much software there could
>> be intimidating to newbies.
>> I'd like to have an alternative web front-end for it,
>> with more extensive descriptions, screenshots and filtering methods.
>> In it's current form, it's not particularly user-friendly.
> 
> Reply taken to Sounder. Please reply there.
> 

One thing I can't figure out is why the home page for each app isn't 
always listed in the synaptic descriptions, so one could just click on 
it and see the apps home page to learn more about the app.
That would, IMHO, be a really good idea.

For some apps a home page is listed, but not a link, and for the vast 
majority of apps, no home page is listed.
I find myself googling stuff...

/tony
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