Re: apt-get

[Andreas Hauser <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

billh wrote @ Mon, 31 May 2004 15:04:25 -0700:

> You still have a somewhat hackish dependency debugger in *BSD packaging
> systems. You have portupgrade, which only kind of resolves these dependency
> often leaving random stuff behind, while in contrast, I can full back out
> dpkgs and reinstall them at will. It maintains a DB of files installed
> in a package, permits file ownership querying, etc...

man pkg_which 

The pkg tools can do most (all?) the things dpkg can.
Your knowledge of both seems rather small.

Andy