Bug#43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R

[Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>]

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> Doesn't anyone else feel this is a hack? Look at how apt does it (parse a
> Packages file, and use that info to get package versions and decide what
> needs to be updated, and then look at only those files) for a much better
> method.
> 
> Basically, no one in their right mind has used the disk method of dselect in
> years. dpkg -iGROEB is known to fail in many ways, just ask Jason Gunthorpe.

What about multi-cd support? Apt does not have any so you have to use
dpkg-multicd which uses dpkg -iGROEB (I think) to install from multiple CDs.

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