Re: naive user

[Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>]

Montreal Mon Mar 15 20:21:06 1999

Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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.

That's cool, thanks!  BSD does take care of the binary getting out of
sync problem too, I believe.

-N.