Mark Hobley wrote:
> --- On Sun, 31/8/08, Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> ... and allow user or admin to break whole system by
>> selecting half of coreutils and 2/3
>> files of dpkg. Great.
>
> I believe that the system administrator should be able to do as he likes.
> Have you not heard that "System Administrator = God" ?
Yes... Nevertheless, It can lead to nightmare for package maintainer ("i have
installed
some files from you package, but them are not working! Why?!">> $ dpkg -L coreutils | grep bin | wc -l >> 99 >> And you suggest package all these binaries individually? >> Did you think about size of dpkg >> and apt databases, if you tell about embedded systems? > > The size of the database depends on packages installed. I don't see a problem > with one line of text for each extra package. Not one line. Not even ten of lines. Dpkg stores for every package, at least: full list of files (with md5 sums optionally), maintainer scripts, changelog, control entry... However, the developers above pointed about Emdebian. > I agree with you there. However, the packages should already be split. I > should not have to keep filing bug reports. Bad approach, IMHO. >> I have almost no doubt this report should be marked >> 'wontfix'. > > We are at the mercy of the developers, of course. It seems Emdebian contains some tools you want here, so I'm apologizing for general conclusion in my first message. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer.
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