On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:44:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > I believe that --set-selections only actually has an effect if you do > > 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' (or 'dselect install', less circuitously). > > 'apt-get upgrade' uses apt's own upgrading logic rather than what you > > selected. > > Hi Colin and Debs, > Something has been bugging me about this business. Why have 2 package > management utilities that do not get/update information from the > same 'book', so to speak? IIRC, dpkg was 1st and apt using dpkg info. Why > would someone make dselect 'do its own thing'?
dselect was developed at around the same time as dpkg and by the same person. It uses dpkg's database; in fact its author has occasionally said to me that it's possibly a little too intimately connected with dpkg, in that /var/lib/dpkg/status is partly the current state of your system and partly what dselect wants to do with it. apt was developed several years later and uses its own database for a number of reasons, some feature-related, some performance-related, and some political. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
