Re: Release-critical Bugreport for February 7, 1999
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 05:57:08PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Ok, I have yet another solution:
>
> A new base Pre-Depends on a new package called base-killer.
> The new base-killer is the one that zeroes /var/lib/dpkg/info/base.files.
> The new base would have a friendly extended description saying "you may
> now remove this package safely".
>
> How does this sound? (In addition to ugly, of course :-)
Sounds OK. You might want to kill timezone and modules while you're at it,
although they're less dangerous.
Hamish
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