Re: dpkg, dselect, apt... what's what?
>>>>> "Juergen" == Juergen A Erhard <jae@ilk.de> writes:
Juergen> I mean, there's dselect... but I understand it will be
Juergen> replaced. When? How can one help?
dselect will be replaced when there is a decent text-mode (curses or
slang or other) frontend to apt.
Juergen> Then there's dpkg... and apt/apt-get. Will the coexist?
Juergen> Or will apt really replace dpkg? Or apt replaces dselect
Juergen> and apt-get dpkg? Or what?
dpkg will always exist; apt is just a front-end to dpkg to get things
like ordering of packages right.
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