Carl Fink wrote: > Well, Debian is in the process of switching package managers (apt), > and supposedly there's a project called "deity" that will supersede > all that has come before, but the current manager, dselect, can do > anything rpm can (including installing rpm files) and some other > things as well.
This paragraph has several errors that I thought I'd clear up: * Apt is not a replacement for dpkg, it is a layer above it that still uses dpkg for the actual package installs and removes. * Apt is a the new name for deity. not something different. * Dselect/dpkg cannot install rpm files, you have to convert them to .deb format first with alien. > On the other hand, it's surprisingly and unnecessarily hard to use. > Also, it is not suitable for installing an entire system (you are > advised to install just the base system, then a few more packages, > then a few more . . .). If you use apt with dselect, this is no longer a problem, apt fixes it. -- see shy jo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
