--- Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hope Duryea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I don't have a "debian system". I have a system > > that I had hoped I could install additional files > > into, using debian packages to do that. > > Then your assumptions and dpkgs assumptions collide. It wasn't an assumption -- it was a hope :) > It was never ment for that. Doesn't mean I can't try using it for that, though :) And now that I have my workaround for (what I consider to be) its "bad behaviour", I actually can. (Not that I think its bad behaviour makes debian bad in general -- quite the opposite -- which is why I've been trying to find a way to make it work for me :) > Note that with that usage dpkg will happily > overwrite your files on install [...] > So you are playing with fire here. Not really, since I won't be installing anything that already exists. (Yes, I'm absolutely certain of that, since I'm building 90% of it myself :) Thanks again for everything, Hope __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
