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Subject: Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools
>> do not offer at the moment?
>
> A GUI.
>
>

That's kind of given :D

But does FreeBSD lack a GUI for ports/packages management? I don't see
many requests for such things on the FreeBSD forums or on the mailing
lists.

-Kimmo