On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:49:57PM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:15:12AM +0100, Martin Albert wrote: > > -- Would that be 'legal' anyway? Modifiying installed files of one pkg > > by the scripts of another? (They're closely related however and chances > > are good that after all this weird stuff, the next pkg to be removed > > would be the manipulated -dev anyway). > > If both packages agree on a policy to do this, this should be no > problem (see e.g. apache, emacs, perl,...). And if you are the > maintainer of both packages you even don't need to write that > policy down. Just make sure it works as expected.
BUT if they are conffiles then you MAY NOT DO THIS EVER!! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
