dselect vs. apt-get

[tim <tim@atomstrahl.de>]

hello 

well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a 
comparison.

I always thought dselect/apt-get are frontend for dpkg. 
dselect uses ncurses, apt-get is only command line. dselect offers a 
manual dependency resolving while apt-get (mainly) just downloads the 
file and calls dpkg... 

my question is due dependencies, are they resolved the same way, either 
if you use apt-get or dselect? or are there any differences. I have 
recently  made the experience that dselect worked on a specifig update 
(cdroast) while apt-get gave my dependency problems...

Is the difference that dselect calls database, once you use it, while 
apt-get first calls dpkg and than dpkg calls the database about 
dependencies?


thanks!