Re: Why does dpkg package depend on dselect?

To: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com>
Cc: Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de>, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Why does dpkg package depend on dselect?
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:53:36 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20020808185336.GL7579@wiggy.net>
Mail-followup-to: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com>, Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de>, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] XFMail.20020808114459.shalehperry@attbi.com>
References: <[🔎] E17csCt-0000y5-00@hendrik-sattler.de> <[🔎] XFMail.20020808114459.shalehperry@attbi.com>

Previously Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> most likely so that dselect did not just silently disappear during the
> upgrade.

Indeed. Having dselect disappear in the middle of an upgrade using
dselect would be somewhat nasty.

Wichert.

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