Re: [SLUG] Re: Moving from Red Hat

From: Logan Tygart (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Tue Nov 16 2004 - 22:39:09 EST


On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 19:43 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 17:45, Logan Tygart wrote:
> > Wild. Since I haven't touched anything Red Hat since 4.something, it
> > seems truly strange to me that one can apt-get dist-upgrade RH.
>
> Even on Debian, APT is just the "front-end" to the DPKG "back-end."
> Most people don't realize that -- APT does not replace DPKG at all.

This I well understand, I just didn't know someone had built the
front-end for rpms. I use dpkg some things I do not compile by hand.

The Logan

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