On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:03:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > There are apparently three package selection databases. These should be > either unified or cross-validated: > > - dpkg > - apt > - aptitude > > Anyone else running into this?
Karsten, don't bother. Every time someone brings up the fact that
aptitude, everyone's darling perfect child, does its own damn thing and
re-implements the status file... they get told to go away.
What's even *better* is that command-line aptitude (insert random quote
about how aptitude is a drop-in replacement for apt-get, which it isn't)
and ncurses aptitude, *don't have the same behavior!* Ncurses aptitude
*does* honor the status file.
Sometimes.
I'm sorry, but dpkg is the *fundamental* tool. If you don't honor its
interfaces, you are *broken*. 'Nuff said.
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