On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote: >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...
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? > > >thanks! > > > -- Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!
