Re: Why does dpkg invoke find instead of doing own searches?

To: Phil Lello <phil.lello@googlemail.com>
Cc: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Why does dpkg invoke find instead of doing own searches?
From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:28:02 +0100
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Phil Lello wrote:
> One option is to have the win32 version of archivefiles do the find itself. 
> It would be trivial to do the POSIX version of the code at the same time, 
> if this is useful.

I guess nobody will object to this.

> As a side-note, at least on Ubuntu/Gutsy, dpkg doesn't depend on or 
> recommend findutils.

$ dpkg -s findutils | grep ^Essential
Essential: yes

findutils is always available on a Debian-based system.

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