* Fri 2008-02-22 Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> INBOX > Raphael Hertzog writes > >> Rather the rest of the man pages are detached from the one marked with >> "!"... and they are detached because they are symlinks. Symlinks always >> appear at the end > > dpkg -L prints the files in the order they are in the file lists in > the dpkg databases. > > The files are in the database in the order that they came in the > package, and I think it would be bad to perturb that (although I > haven't thought it through carefully). The files are in the package > in that order so that when a symlink is installed by atomic rename > during unpack, the file which it refers to already exists. > The -L listing is very ofter used to check where "are" the files in the package. For human consumption, the alphabetical order is very important. Any other order is distracting.
> I think the right answer is for dpkg -L to sort its output (perhaps > with an option to suppress this if desired). The other way round. Please make the sorted listing the default, and add separate option to list the RAW order[*] [*] On top of my head, I don't know what program would benefit from the raw listing, because it would still need to test [ -h "$path" ] to determine if any of those are symlinks or not. Jari -- Welcome to FOSS revolution: we fix and modify until it shines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
