[Ubuntu-US-NM] EPC suggestion

[Eric Krieger]

apt is just a high level package manager tool where as dpkg is low level 
tool. dpkg maintains the information about installed packages and this 
info is located in....

/var/lib/dpkg

Much like Red Hat rpm is the lower level too and yum is the higher.
Gentoo...well is gentoo... =P

Eric


Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Sounds good -- so (another question) does apt just use its own
> database to determine package states, or does it actually check
> /var/cache/apt?  If the former, if somebody else downloads a package
> then the next host to want it will download it again.
>
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