Re: Proposal regarding future packaging
19-09-2007, Bruce Sass:
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>> > 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?
This is the design flaw in those scripts (even in whole package
management).
> I'm hoping the dpkg "triggers" functionality Ian Jackson has been
> working on will help solve that wart though.
How exactly?
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