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Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

From: Chris Bannister <mockingbird(at)earthlight.co.nz>
Date: Mon Oct 08 2007 - 08:51:05 EDT

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:

root@box:~# dpkg --purge dselect
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of dselect: dpkg depends on dselect.
[..]

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Chris.
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