Re: autoup.sh & considerations on bail-out scripts

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@metrolink.net> wrote:
>      To remove timezone (at least from a rex system), autoup.sh must
> use a --force-remove-essential command.  dselect can't handle this,
> and probably never will be able to.  autoup.sh needs polishing and
> documentation, but, as Craig says, we won't be able to get away from
> it or something very similar.

Can't we just provide an empty placeholder package (like we've done so
many times in the past) and change timezones to conflict with prior
versions of the timezone package?

-- 
Raul


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