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Author: KatolaZ
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To: Didier Kryn
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:19:44PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 16/04/2016 19:47, Noel Torres a écrit :
> >
> >I regularly use aptitude's CUI (I use to name it as text-mode
> >GUI). Mostly because it has that wonderful "Mark as automatically
> >installed" mode, that allows packages to be more easily updated or
> >removed.
>
>     I'm afraid I've forged the acronym CUI sometimes in 2015, while
> reading/writing this mailing list. Or I've read it somewhere and I
> just repeated it without noticing. Anyway it's shorter than
> "text-mode GUI" :-)

>


I think the usual acronym to indicate "an interface based on ncurses"
is TUI, which obviously stands for Text-based User Interface.

My2Cents

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