Previously Mitch Blevins wrote: > My thoughts exactly. I'd like to see more discussion on this. I'm not sure exactly what kind of discussion you would like. The minimal implementation is a file with a list of directories dpkg should ignore. This can and will break any application that does not follow policy and tries to modify something in /usr of that is shared. Another thing is {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts trying to modify things in a shared directory, which is clearly also bad. And finally things like update-alternative, install-info, and dpkg-divert will need to honour exclusions. We can fix it quite easily for dpkg, dpkg-divert, install-update, update-alternatives. Modifying the {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts will be hell, and everything else it outside our control. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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