On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:04:37PM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
> + Additionally, the system administrator should be able to say
> [to debconf maybe?]
> + that files in /usr/share/doc never be installed, that they be
> + removed all at once or, having originally preferred same, that
> + they should be installed again from all packages that installs
> + such a dir.
This requires dpkg changes, and doesn't seem like it's particularly
appropriate for -policy in any case. (Section 3.1.2 includes ``In the
future, it will be possible to tell `dpkg' not to unpack files matching
certain patterns, so that the directories can be included in the `.deb'
packages and [...]'', which is the same idea, but doesn't mandate
difficult code changes)
The latter option probably more-or-less already exists as `apt-get
--reinstall', but I don't think there's any way to specify that
*everything* should be reinstalled (upgrade only seems to choose new
packages).
Cheers,
aj, who thinks policy is better of describing existing practice, than
mandating strange and complicated new behaviours...
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