I don't know what you mean. dselect is like 2000 era, and was replaced by "aptitude" at least 15 years ago. "apt" has been around since the beginning and still

I don't know what you mean. dselect is like 2000 era, and was replaced by "aptitude" at least 15 years ago. "apt" has been around since the beginning and still works just fine. The fact that "aptitude" has some overlap with "apt" is a detail--its real strength is that its curses ui (which was a massive improvement over dselect).