[vox] Another way to hose a system

[Ken Bloom]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:45:01PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote:
> Try Synaptic for a GUI package manager.  I install and use it for
> my Kubuntu desktops.  This is the default for Ubuntu and it's beyond
> me why Kubuntu doesn't also have it out of the box.

Because Synaptic uses GTK+ and Adept uses QT. Many people feel that
it's bad (in terms of bloat) to have two GUI toolkits installed and to
have mismatched applications, no matter how good the application is.
I'm not one of those people, but they do exist.

--Ken Bloom

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