Re: Why does dpkg package depend on dselect?
On 08-Aug-2002 Florent Rougon wrote:
> Lex Spoon <lex@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
>> What about aptitude? How long do we keep using dselect, anyway?
>
> Lots if people like dselect a lot (including myself), it is maintained,
> so why do you want to remove it?
>
indeed, I trust dselect. None of the apt frontends have appeared stable or as
full featured.
>> Also, isn't there some debian-base package around that everyone has?
>> That could be modified to depend on dselect (or maybe (dselect|aptitude)....
>
> How would it be better than the current solution?
>
no there is not a package you can be 100% someone has installed.
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