package managers

[Sundar Nagarajan]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> I believe they all resolve down to   dpkg  at their depths....


Yes, dpkg is the lower level tool, and the rest use dpkg. As it says in 
the Debian FAQ, "the higher level package management tools such as 
aptitude or dselect rely on apt which, itself, relies on dpkg to manage 
the packages in the system".

See Debian FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html

Sundar.