[Debtags-devel] Updating tags on svn

[Thaddeus H. Black]

Erich Schubert wrote:
> apt-get however is the command line interface to the apt libraries
> (kind of).

I like your reasoning.  However, the very words "command line interface"
somehow tend to imply "utility" to me.  How shall we resolve this?  If
`apt-get' is an application, then are `more' and `ls' also applications?

By a strictly logical definition, `more' is an application because it is
interactive (if stdio is considered "interactive"), while `ls' is an
application because it is not normally used in a processing chain (one
uses `find' in the chain, not `ls').  However, this definition does not
seem right.  `less' is an application; `more' is a utility.  `mc' is an
application; `ls' is a utility.

Can we not draw the line between aptitude (application) and apt-get
(utility)?  

> So you ever run "debconf" yourself?

Never.

> Debconf is more like a libary, actually.

Good point.
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