Re: dpkg was interrupted, you must MANUALLY *what*...????
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:48:03AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> wichert@wiggy.net (Wichert Akkerman) writes:
>
> > Previously Paul Seelig wrote:
> > > Why, oh WHY do i have to do things manually when the computer used for
> > > running programs could easily do such trivial things by itself?
> >
> > Complain to deity@lists.debian.org, not debian-dpkg.
> >
>
> I did. But on second thought:
>
> This happened to me as well a few times before using exclusively a
> failing "dpkg -i foo_08-15_i386.deb" (reason: disk full) and it can
> easily be reproduced by simply pressing ctrl-c during install.
>
> I guess, that rather makes it a dpkg problem which dpkg hopefully
> should learn to handle by itself instead of bothering the user with
> manual tinkering. If a normal admin-user has no other choice fixing
> stuff anyway other than doing what dpkg demands, it could rather do it
> all by itself instead of bothering the user-admin with this.
>
> I use a computer for making it do all the stuff i don't want to be
> bothered with. But programs need to be cooperative in this regard.
Sorry, but I need to digress. You can't expect a computer to do every
freaking thing you want, without intervention. If you can't be bothered
to add one extra step because you eiher a) Filled your disk, or b) Hit
^C, then you need to go get one of those computers that reads your mind,
and dynamically expands your disk space using waste from the garbage, or
magically ressurects itself after user-induced failures. Oh, wait, they
don't make those yet!
Get off it.
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