On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:51:05AM -0400, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge dselect > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of dselect: > dpkg depends on dselect. > [..]
dpkg depends on dselect because dselect used to be part of the dpkg package. When dselect was split out, the dpkg maintainers wanted to ensure that no-one lost dselect during an upgrade, so dpkg depended (in fact, pre-depended IIRC) on dselect for some time. There's no technical reason to have dselect around. That said, the dependency went away sometime between sarge and etch, although a quick scan of the changelog doesn't tell me when. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
