Re: dpkg non-non maintainer release

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> > e. Improvements to dselect's installation methods, many of which are
> > quite suboptimal.
> > 
> > Opinions on which of these I should do first ?  b is easiest.  I think
> > that a-c should be done by me.  d and e could easily be done by
> > someone else.
> 
> I think apt already supercedes almost all installation methods (except the
> floppy installation method, I guess).

Currently apt does not supercede anything.  Instead it provides a new, different,
maybe better (I don't know), method of fetching, organizing and installing
packages.

Regards,

	Joey

PS: As a sidenote I tried apt, it forced me to do vi /var/lib/dpkg/status
three times where dselect/dpkg didn't force me.  I still like the ftp-method
more, except that it can't handle more source locations which is a major
lack in my eyes.

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The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media.  -- H. Peter Anvin