Re: dpkg vs. apt
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 07:56:51PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:16:28PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > Really i don't know why i have the feeling that dselect+dpkg !=
> > aptitude+apt-get
> > Really i think that each pair works in a different way.
>
> Heh, actually, dselect doesn't use dpkg directly at all, it uses
> apt-get.
That depends on how you've configured it. dselect existed long before
apt-get and I know people who still configure it to use the old access
methods, although they aren't the default these days ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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