[techtalk] Re: rpms r bad?

[Raven, corporate courtesan]

Heya --

> Some debianite will have to correct me, but as I understand, debian
> has a package managing tool (dpkg). apt-get is basically a front-end 
> with all that cool functionality...

     Yep, that's right.  Using raw dpkg is just ugly.  If you get
really technical, apt is the front end, and apt-get is the user
interface to that.

Cheers,
Raven

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