Re: Proposal regarding future packaging
On Wed September 19 2007 04:53:10 pm John Goerzen wrote:
> 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?
It doesn't catch files created by Maintainer scripts?
I'm hoping the dpkg "triggers" functionality Ian Jackson has been
working on will help solve that wart though.
- Bruce
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