Previously John Foster wrote: > I was referencing the kernel package. It seems to have a lot of stuff I do > not require for my i386 CPU but when I have removed/deleted some of these > from the tree in the past, it screwed up my dpkg dependencies. The kernel source package only contains a tar archive of the kernel source now. If you safely unpack it and then remove parts of the unpacked source, dpkg won't care if you do that. This just happens to be the way in which the kernel source is distributed, and every now and then someone seems to come up with the idea to split the source in bits (see the linux-kernel archives) but a consensus is reached that perhaps that is not such a good idea after all. > This resulted in being unable to use dpkg to remove what it assumed > were half installed programs. Older kernel-source packages contained the unpacked source. If you remove parts of that dpkg would give a warning for each file that was in its database but that you removed. Those are just warnings though. > This is exactly the feature that I am seeking. It's not though, you just think at the moment it is :). I do want to add this to dpkg at some point, but at the moment there are just a bunch of things higher on the TODO-list. However please realize that this won't help you to exclude files from other languages completely, but only those which happen to live in a clearly defined place in the filesystem hierarchy. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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