package managers

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Art Alexion wrote:
> Oh, and in this instance, it is an oversimplification to say that they are
> all based on dpkg, because dpkg does not manage installation of
> dependencies at all.

I never said it did....   and no it doesn't.   But they all use dpkg at their 
lowest level.


> Try adding a deb with missing dependencies with dpkg 
> and you won't get asked whether you want to install them the way apt-get,
> aptitude, and the GUIs do.  You just get a failure.