apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect and dpkg are; dselect acts as a frontend (or used to) for dpkg. How does apt

Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect and dpkg are; dselect acts as a frontend (or used to) for dpkg. How does apt and deity fit into that picture? Are they replacements? It seems like dselect uses something called apt-get

Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

I also forgot to mention that there's currently quite a bit of work going on to get Debian more user friendly at installation-time. One of the big initiatives is debconf which allows packages to have a common front-end to ask the user questions about their configuration settings during package

Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Chris R. Martin wrote: Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect deity is APT's development code