Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Chris R. Martin wrote: > Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having > trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and > "deity" (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect

Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

I also forgot to mention that there's currently quite a bit of work going on to get Debian more user friendly at installation-time. One of the big initiatives is "debconf" which allows packages to have a common front-end to ask the user questions about their configuration settings during package i

Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

. Martin wrote: > Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having > trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and > "deity" (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect > and dpkg are; dselect acts a

apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and "deity" (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect and dpkg are; dselect acts as a frontend (or used to) for dpk