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New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

Posted Jul 14, 2013 13:42 UTC (Sun) by gevaerts (subscriber, #21521)
In reply to: New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire) by maxiaojun
Parent article: New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

1. Yes. I've never known a time when that wasn't possible
4. dpkg *never* had a Recommends: on dselect and aptitude, and it last mentioned dselect in its package description back in 2005

When did you last actually look at these things?

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New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

Posted Jul 14, 2013 14:20 UTC (Sun) by maxiaojun (guest, #91482) [Link] (1 responses)

Today.

1. "Note that it is bad practice to use aptitude and apt-get interchangeably, as they record changes made by a user separately." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptitude_(software)

4. http://sources.debian.net/src/dpkg/1.16.10/src/main.c#L167
"dpkg" without arguments, you see this string.

New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

Posted Jul 15, 2013 10:10 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

The statement on Wikipedia is obsolete. aptitude has stored its information about whether a package is installed manually or automatically in apt's database since the feature was introduced in apt many years ago.