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Re: Removing rsh-server is difficult



On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 09:00:35PM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> Just another idea.  How about removing task-* packages to remove
> by itself in postinst?  Yes, it's not allowed to run dpkg from postinst
> by lock problem, but it's possible to wait unlock in similar way in
> update-menus, that is, fork child process and wait unlock, then 
> dpkg -r <the-task-package>.

No, I really don't like this.  What happens when a new package is
added to the list, either because the maintainer forgot it in the
first place or because a new package was added to Debian?  I want to
pull in the requisite new packages when such a thing happens.

   Julian

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