> This should bomb out right away,
   > $ install -d /var/lib/dpkg/status /tmp/var/lib/dpkg/status
   > install: `/var/lib/dpkg/status' exists but is not a directory
   >
   > instead of still creating /tmp/var/lib/dpkg/status.

   Why?

No idea, but one could add a option that makes install exit on any
kind of failure; then people can pass INSTALL_FLAGS to configure and
get things to fail.  I'll leave it to Dan to implement such a thing.


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