I wrote: > My last use of it was long ago, but I remember it clearly. Too clearly. > I'd rather use dpkg directly. Tollef Fog Heen writes: > I'd rather use ar, tar, hack dpkg's status file and run the maintainer > scripts by hand. Heh. I didn't mean that I preferred dpkg to all else: I use apt whenever possible (which is almost always). Apt does the right thing, and dpkg does exactly what I tell it to. -- John Hasler