Re: naive user

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Montreal Mon Mar 15 19:03:54 1999
> Is there a better way to handle this sort of thing?  Being a naive
> user I simply copied over the default Debian binary and forgot all
> about it but I hear rumours that in those in the BSD world have a
> clean way of handling such things.

dpkg-divert was built for this.  However, you risk your binary getting
out of sync with the rest of the package.

Richard Braakman