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Re: KDE3 and KDE2 side by side



On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Nicolai P Guba wrote:

> It's encouraging to know that a feature such as --prefix to dpkg would be
> appreciated... just not quite sure whether begging is my forte \grin{}

>From what I know it takes long to get a feature into
(debian-base-infrastructure). Which is understandable. I suggest if want
to do it then go first to the relevant mailing list/maintainers and ask
around.

> BTW I've got other gripes with dpkg.  Like the abscence of indexes.  Being
> able to query which packages are in a logical group (ie dpkg -l -g editors,
> listing all packages that belong to the editors group for eg).  The current
> partitioning scheme is way too general for the number of packages debian
> handles nowadays.  (Was ok in the early days).

afaik aptitude or one of the newer apt-frontends has this. It's an index
that's maintaned separately. Have not checked, just heard/read it.
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