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Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive



On 20-Sep-01, 20:30 (CDT), Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote: 
> I made it a *.deb package, because that allows you to use apt-get to
> automatically upgrade the package on a *nfs root* partition to the
> latest version.

(Brian, thanks for the explanation. That was a lot more useful than "you
want boot floppies, dontcha?")

But why are they are in the main archive? Apt-get supports specifing
different alternative sources.list files from the command line, which
would allow these packages to live in a "non-public" part of the
archive.

Steve

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Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>



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