Package: dpkg Severity: wishlist On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:33:06PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > The reason why I'm supporting this proposal is because I find the > symlinks to undocumented(7) technically less than ideal in a number of > ways. They lead to a farm of dangling symlinks on machines that don't > have the manpages package installed (#32019, #53214); they have > translation issues that would necessitate some very ugly hacks like not > honouring symlinks in the expected way (#167291); and they cause this > very common complaint due to the symlinks showing up in 'dpkg -L' > output: > > 17:06 <weasel> you are happy that you finally found some docs, wait > for groff to render it, and what you get is a stupid undocumented(7) > page
It would be most helpful if dpkg --listfiles had a way to indicate the type of relevant files, or better yet, if it just looked vaguely like ls output (complete with mode and owner). Preferably including support for --color. This should probably be a new option (dpkg --ls?). [This is relatively easy if it displays the currently-installed state of the files, and currently infeasible if it displays the what-I-installed state] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
