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Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...



On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Theodore Tso wrote:

> One of the problems with Debian is that is that it has lots and lots
> of layers: apt-cache, apt-get, dpkg, dselect, dpkg-reconfigure,
> dpkg-deb, debhelper, debconf, etc.  This wouldn't be too terrible a
> problem, except that there's no good overall documentation about how
> the various difference pieces interact, and how various different
> tasks should be accomplished.

And you haven't even begun *making* .deb packages yourself AFAIK. *That's*
where things start getting *really* funny. The users perspective is
nothing compared to the amount of tools that interact when you are
packaging stuff...;-)
*t

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