Re: New approach to obsolete packages
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 10:00:51AM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> We've had a number of cases now where it would be convenient to have a
> package that removes itself after successful installation. In some
> cases we actually built one (xbase, miscutils), with others we found
> another solution (modutils), and with some we don't have a solution
> yet (xfnt*).
>
> I think a general solution might be to add a single new dpkg flag:
>
> Self-Destruct: Yes
>
A better name would be Remove-on-Install.
Jay Treacy
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