On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 12:59:28PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> dselect Pre-Depends: dpkg
> dpkg Replaces: dselect
> ? That could be made to work...
What could also probably be made to work is something like:
Package: dselect
Priority: important
Section: base
Replaces: dpkg
Package: dpkg
Recommends: dselect
Possibly with some preinst trickery like Ben's libc6 trickery to ensure
dselect doesn't get broken during the upgrade. Which would allow you to
remove dselect whenever you wanted.
An obvious problem with adding a package that dpkg depends on is that it
will completely break all current boot-floppies; and splitting dselect
into a new package will break the install when it gets to tasksel.
It's really way too late to be considering this.
Cheers,
aj
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