On 07 Feb, Andy Sy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:

> Hmmm... looks nifty, and even simpler than FreeBSD ports. Is apt-get
> built on top of dselect?  A long time ago when apt was not yet around,
> I heard a lot of grumbling about how dselect was such a pain to use.

dselect is but one interface to the dpkg system. apt-get is another,
great for CLI use. deity and aptitude are great improvements over
dselect, and worth looking into. 

But I love being able to apt-cache search quickly.. =)
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