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Re: RFC: dpkg and handling of the Unconfigured state



On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:

> Any comments on this ?

Well, I have not observed that dpkg is capable of placing guarentees on
the dependency state during the *rm scripts. Alot of packages make use of
their dependents during their removal which leads the the problem that you
can no longer upgrade without configuring alot of stuff as it is unpacked.

Jason


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