Re: dpkg -S and symlinks --> spell check in mutt
Oops. Typo again.
Maybe I should force myself spell checking before sending. Any good
idea for MUTT? I keep forgetting typing "i" before "y". Maybe MACRO?
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:02:56PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:54:14AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > Noting that the look command lacks the word herbicide, I will be a
> > good Samaritan and inform somebody, or so i thought:
> > I do
> > $ man look
> > "If file is not specified, the file /usr/share/dict/words is used..."
> > $ dpkg -S /usr/share/dict/words
> > dpkg: /usr/share/dict/words not found.
> > Oh, I see it is a symlink. Odd, the dpkg man page doesn't mention -S
> > doesn't know about symlinks. Must be a bug, no?
>
> This is my frastration with current debian system.
s/frastration/frustration/
>
> "dpkg -S" only shows files in package but files created by install
> scripts are not shown because it is not in package. "symlinks are
> created by postinstall scripts for sure.
>
>
> This is not a bug in narrow sense but usability bug. Thus you can file
> ths as wishlist, I think...
s/ths/this/
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