On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
[...] > from being installed. What I plan to do is to have dpkg read a > usually-nonexistent conffile in /etc and use wildcard patterns from > it. This would be documented in the manual, with warnings telling you [...] > to NFS-mount /usr from another machine. > > It's possible that this feature could be used to support CDROM > live-filesystem installations, but in that case it will all be managed I hope that the confile in /etc will allow people to select a different set of wildcards for each package. That is important because many people would want to install only docs for user-unfriendly packages or to NFS-mount not the whole /usr but only selected (big) packages. A non-discriminating confile would be almost useless.
