[Synaptic-devel] Why I like Aptitude more

[Martin Forsgren]

 Hi
I've used synaptic some times but always returned to
Aptitude. Now I think I know why.

In aptitude you've got the same possibility to check
a package all the time so you can trace changes and
dependencies easy.
Example in aptitude:
examine synaptic you see it recommends dwww.
here you can select dwww and see what it
is, what it depends on and how big it is.

In synaptic It is easy to find packages, you can search
for them in different ways. But when you selected one
package you can only see what it depends on and recommends.
You have the possibility to install recommended packages,
but for examine them you have to do a new search for the
new package.
The example above but in synaptic:
examine synaptic. you see it recommends dwww.
To get info about dwww you have to search for
this package.

When examine a lot of packages this way is time consuming
and it also lessen the overview.

I don't know how to fix this, but the first would be
to make dependencies and recommendations click-able and
make a history ( a path ) of how you chosen. For example
in the statusbar saying: synaptic->dwww->Apache

This is not to say Synaptic is bad, It isn't. Its really
great, its just that I miss the way of handling things
in Aptitude.

Keep up the good work!

/Martin forsgren