On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:36:42PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Matt Zimmerman writes: > > Because dpkg knows what files and directories it has created on the > > system. > > I suppose you could call having the name buried somewhere in one or more of > upwards of 500 <package>.list files "knowing". > > Would you add a filename/directoryname database to dpkg? Er...that is exactly what those .list files are. -- - mdz