On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:07:54AM -0800, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
<snip>
> One last thing though. We'll have to keep the perl package around for
> perpetuity in case someone upgrades later.
Annoying, but not fatal..
> This will also have the principle of greatest surprise when someone
> naively installs the perl package.
Except that the perl package can have a nice priority extra, with a disc
something along the lines of:
(blatantly stolen from xbase and modified slightly)
--START--
perl - perl upgrade convenience package
Between Debian 2.1 ("slink") and 2.2 ("potato") the perl packages were
reorganized; this package exists solely to smooth the transition for
people upgrading from Debian 2.1 or earlier.
Once this package has been installed it may be removed at any time; it
contains no programs, libraries, or documentation.
If any package keeps you from removing this one due to dependencies
please report it as a bug.
--END--
A little annoying, but livable.. (=:]
>
> Sorry to be so boneheaded about this. I've just not been able to think
> in dpkg terms lately. Thanks for all your help.
Don't worry about it, I've done much, much, worse at times..
>
> Darren
Zephaniah E. Hull.
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