Re: Question about dpkg -r

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hope Duryea <hope_duryea@yahoo.com> writes:

> Putting this stuff into /usr/local isn't an option --
> but I'm a bit confused about what you mean. How is
> /usr/local, if I create it myself, any different from
> my creating /usr myself?

There is no package in debian containing /usr/local or anything below
that. So dpkg will never touch it.

/usr on the other hand is it basically every debian package and dpkg
will handle that.
  
>> [And I still don't get how you manage to create a
>> debian system with
>> no package claiming /usr any more. No libc6
>> installed?]
>
> I don't have a "debian system". I have a system that I
> had hoped I could install additional files into, using
> debian packages to do that.

Then your assumptions and dpkgs assumptions collide. It was never ment
for that. Note that with that usage dpkg will happily overwrite your
files on install and then remove them on removals without ever telling
you. So you are playing with fire here.

MfG
        Goswin