Nathanael Nerode writes ("Splitting dselect from dpkg -- acceptable plan?"):
> My plan for dselect is to make dselect more fully based on apt, [...]
> Is this an acceptable future path for dselect?
No.
<insert rant about apt>
I still use dselect on all of my Debian systems and I don't want to
switch to using apt. dselect is more than just a UI.
Ian.