Re: dselect vs. apt-get
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote:
>hello
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>well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a
>comparison.
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>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...
aptitude and deity are both curses (or X) frontends for apt.
>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...
No. For dselect, Suggests are effectively Depends, while for apt,
Suggests are effectively ignored.
>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?
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>thanks!
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