Humor me; I think I'm missing something and it's got me curious.
In discussions about dealing with .deb packages, apt* and dpkg are mentioned almost universally. It's always been my habit to use dselect for basic installation and removal, leaning on apt* and dpkg for troubleshooting and extended information gathering. The differentiation seems to be akin to using mutt versus piping things to /usr/bin/mail - you can do most basic tasks in both places, but mutt's presentation makes for quick work. Why so much apt and dpkg and so little dselect?
