On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:29:58AM +0100, Jonathan Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Can any of you guys outlined what, if any, the relationship is between > aptitude and deity as they both appear to perform roughly the same > functions.
There is no relationship. At the time I started aptitude, the codebase of console-apt was so broken and hard to work with (in my opinion at the time) that I felt it was more worth my while to start a new project where I could incorporate my ideas into the basic structure of the program. [0] console-apt has since improved tremendously and morphed into deity. Both programs are under active development and are probably completely usable as package management frontends. (note, however, that I do not use deity, so I can't really make any meaningful comments about it) > I'm wondering which is likely to replace dselect, if that is > the intention, or if there are intended to compliment each other. It is my intention that aptitude be (eventually) a functional replacement for dselect; ie, you can use it instead of dselect. I believe that deity's authors have the same thing in mind. However, many Debian users still swear by dselect, and it is still under semi-active development, so I think it is unlikely to be entirely replaced soon -- if ever. (for one thing, we'd have to split it out from dpkg, which is its own gigantic can of worms :P ) Daniel [0] Which I then rewrote multiple times, but nevermind. -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | "Note that fires are not restricted to dormitories. | | Indeed, fire can occur in off-campus residences as well." | | -- Brown University Fire Safety Guide | \------------- Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org -- Because. ------------/
