Re: Why is help so hard to find?
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:52:13PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:
> > Yes, and this is what I did. It's just rather tedious to (IIRC)
> > repeatedly run "dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc" and then find out which file
> > is offending, run "dpkg -S $file", and then purge it.
> I've not looked at the mechanism involved at all, but it does seem like we
> should be able to print out all of the files that would cause failures.
> Maybe it's hard to continue from an error long enough to find additional
> files?
It'd also be *much* nicer if it were possible to do the checks outside
of dpkg-reconfigure, especially if you're using a frontend that doesn't
make cut'n'paste easy.
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