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Re: Proposal regarding future packaging



On Wednesday 19 September 2007 5:43:03 pm David Given wrote:
> John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I like this idea, especially if there were a short description about
> > each program and relevent configuration files.
>
> I like this too. Finding what a package has just installed is one of the
> biggest holes in Debian right now, IMO. I have to use dpkg -L to figure
> this out, and that's just too crude to be a real solution.

Too crude?  That's a simple command, easily found in a relevant manpage.  In 
true Unix fashion, its output can be easily piped to other commands.  What's 
crude about it?



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