Re: IMPORTANT: What can we do about the base package?

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

joey@kite.ml.org (Joey Hess)  wrote on 02.03.97 in <[🔎] 19970302001842.32344@kite.ml.org>:

> How about releasing an update of the base package that contains no files,

... so installing it will first remove all the files formerly in base and  
in no other installed package.

Thus, for example, trashing all permission changes to /dev, among other  
weirdnesses.

I really think we can't solve this one without some gross hack, and I'd  
very much prefer to have Ian's input on this.

MfG Kai