Re: [erbenson@alaska.net: Re: Still no base tarball]

[nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller)]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> Well, an option for dpkg to not call these scripts is a technical solution.
> It's a hacker option, for people who know what they do.  It is not
> failproof, but it generally works for new installs, where only a limited set
> of known packages is installed.

And to make it a little more robust, one could have it not ignore
postrm and prerm scripts, but rather fail in that case. (And then you
could have --no-scripts --force if you really want to).

/Niels