:: Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?
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Szerző: Nate Bargmann
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Tárgy: Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?
* On 2016 16 Apr 16:04 -0500, KatolaZ wrote:
> 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.


Either term is understandable to me. I do see erroneous references to
such interfaces as CLI around the Web. To be sure, many [TC]UI have an
amount of CLI coded into them.

- Nate

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