Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?
I wrote:
> Just off the top of my head I see no reason why these files [created by
> maintainer scripts] could not be included in the package empty and filled
> in by the scripts. This would identify the files as belonging to the
> package and also allow dpkg to remove them, eliminating the need for the
> postrm to do so.
Thomas Adam writes:
> The overhead in doing this is stupid...
A few dozen bytes in each of those few packages that need it, less any
reduction in the postinst and postrm.
> ...and having a lot of empty files in /etc is just pointless.
Where would any empty files come from?
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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