On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote: >> How does it confuse users? > > They see files which in reality do not exist.
Where do these files live anyway? Given that the first (and only) report about this (for Lighttpd) is due to a tool to scan for cruft, the problem doesn't seem to be very big. >> > I say we're far from having it solved at a higher level, "declarative >> > diversions" are the subject of a GSoC but there's no plan currently to do >> > something similar with the alternatives. >> >> How far is far? >> >> To me, it sounds almost trivial. > > Patches welcome if you think so. We have made progress when we switched > update-alternatives to C... it's now at least possible to reuse some of > the code within dpkg but it's definitely not trivial. C++ is my language of choice My first thought was to handle this via DH though, not dpkg. -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
