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Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?



On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:19:33AM +0200, Tobias Nissen wrote:
> Hi Martin!
> 
> Martin Waller wrote:
> > Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
> > having used dselect up to now?
> 
> Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases.

dpkg seems to rely on dselect for some reason:

root@box:~# dpkg --purge dselect
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of dselect:
 dpkg depends on dselect.
[..]

-- 
Chris.
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