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Re: old GNU tarball



On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:13:21PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Joachim Nilsson <joachim.nilsson@vmlinux.org> schrieb:
> > > > Btw, how about adding 2>/dev/null to the configure line of dpkg?
> > > No way, you want to see any unexpected errors.
> > But it's not unexpected ... we need dpkg to setup the rest, but
> > dpkg needs dselect and hurd so it's a bit of catch-22 situation.
> Redirecting stderr gets rid of all warnings or error messages, expected or 
> unexpected.

You don't say?! :-)

Just to clearify, I was talking about adding redirection of stderr to the
configuration of just one package - dpkg - not all packages! Eliminating
that would save us from answering questions about an "error" that users
can safely ignore.


Regards
 /Joachim

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