Re: dselect features request
Hi,
I feel somewhat uneasy about making somehings as central as
dpkg "less foolproof", no matter how pathological the lessening of
foolproofness maybe. Experience has taught ne that there are more
fools than one imagines.
I would not object to having the control files skipped by an
explicit option, though, for the speedup (we can't do it by default,
since the dos directory contains filenames that are truncated; and
all the filenames *still* may match the pattern name_version*.deb).
Also, it has been promised in the past that one may rename the
package file to anything one wants and dpkg shall stil do the right
thing. I like that, and I don't think we should drop that just for
speed (optomize for the most common case: I run a 133Mhz machine
[which seems to be fast becoming slower than the norm], and
full a hamm mirror, in my opinion the time taken is not so much as to
justify the reduction in functionality)
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
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