Re: design issues in debian packages
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Adam Heath wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2001, Brian May wrote:
> > I was thinking of the ideal long term solution:
> > For each file in *.d/$file, package $file must be installed, otherwise
> > it will get ignored.
>
> You want to have other programs know how to call dpkg, to see if a package is
> installed? Ew.
Ew indeed. Especially since the only thing a .d/foo script needs to do to
avoid running when the package is removed (as oposed to purged) is to test
-f /usr/sbin/somebinary, for example. Any file not in /usr/share/doc nor in
/etc, which is not a conffile will do.
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