On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:14:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:00:13AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote: > >> you want. The postinst code would call the compression routines, > >> which might not do anything, depending on how the compressing package > >> was configured (i.e., it wouldn't call the compressing code directly, > >> but through a wrapper). > > > >makes sense > > Not if UPX were to be an option for all binaries. Having to add stuff to > every package's postinst is evil (see /usr/doc, although that was > necessary). ok, then have the upx package ask if the admin wants to compress /* it seems there is only a few ways to do this: 1) add crap to postinst. -- evil 2) packages just compress at build time -- beyond evil, don't even think about it. 3) add all the questions/compression tasks to the upx package itself. option 3 seems to be the only semi sane/non-evil way. -- Ethan Benson who personally finds the idea of upx hideous. http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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