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Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink



On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:50:02PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:21:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Well, I don't think the original plan did say base-files had to include
> > > the directory, but it certianly required that the directory still
> > > _be_there_. Do you have a better candidate package to include it?
> >
> > If all else fails, debootstrap could create it before installing
> > packages. Obviously it's not as neat as having it in the dpkg database,
> > but, since it only matters for new installs and since it'll be rmdir'ed
> > later, it should work well enough.
> 
> Seems a much better place to me, please add a debconf question so that
> users are able to say no.

I wasn't aware that debootstrap was able to ask debconf questions,
seeing as it installs debconf. boot-floppies could ask a question, but
they already ask quite a lot ...

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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