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Re: dselect and dpkg



On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 05:40:14PM +0300, Ymir wrote:
> I was wondering why does dpkg pre-depend on dselect, seeing how
> dselect is a frontend for dpkg. I was trying to uninstall dselect the
> other and found that rather odd dependency, was thinking somebody
> could tell me _why_ it's there.

i think it is because dpkg and dselect used to be in one package. the
pre-depends exists so that the new setup is similar to the old one.

--
gram



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