On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:24:44PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Why are these inadequate tools still there if not to be used? I'm not > > trying to be argumentative, I think it's a reasonable question. The > > beautiful aptitude can be used on even a bare minimum command-line > > installation on rock bottom hardware, so why keep all the superseded > > antiquities when we've clearly moved on? > > Because we haven't. Aptitude, apt, synaptic all use what tool to do the > installations? dpkg > > dpkg is nice to have around for when one needs some quick information > (dpkg -L, dpkg -S). It also does all the grunt work for the other tools. Why > replace that which works fine? :) >
True. However, people need to realize that dpkg is a low level tool. If we all went around using dpkg instead of a proper package management tool, then we would end up in the Debian equivalent of RPM-hell. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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