Ubuntu installers?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Jan 6 17:41:08 UTC 2023


On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 10:17:30AM -0500, Little Girl wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >Not at all.  "Format" describes the kinds of packages that you feed
> >into the system - that is, .debs.  apt and dpkg are certainly
> >different *tools* that operate at somewhat different levels of
> >abstraction, but they handle the same *format* of packages.
> 
> If you say so. Nevertheless, you were referring to tools as formats,
> which, ironically, is a great example of the confusion the OP was
> talking about.

Only because Liam referred to apt as a "format" upthread :-)

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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