Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question
On 24-Apr-00, 23:02 (CDT), Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp@cloud9.net> wrote:
> I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was
> wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux
> distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning
> to customize and modify it, but haven't really yet... other than Windowmaker
> graphics and WDM graphics..
>
> Is it OK to carefully modify /var/lib/dpkg/status?
Along with what David Starner said, you might also want to check out
the equivs package. It's not the away around the perl problem (as he
wrote, nothing should depend on "perl", but it may help with your other
problems.
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