Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Peter Maydell wrote:
> My point wasn't that installing man pages for multiple languages was
> wrong, just that installing them without asking was wrong.
We're increasingly of the opinion recently that any postinst questions are
to be avoided.
In any event, others are correct to say that this is a general issue with
dpkg, which should be able to hold a list of paths or files to not
install. I'm sure that said desire is already listed as a bug for dpkg.
Scott
(who is considering hacking up a program to stick in cron which would
purge out whatever directory paths the user didn't want to keep)
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