Hi, Quoting Ralf Treinen (2015-06-30 19:22:43) > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 03:29:51PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > > As for the second problem (the empty Packages file) I was annoyed by this > > myself for a long time and would like to get to know a use case where an > > empty input file would make sense. Currently I'm working around this by > > conditionally only running dose3 in my scripts when the input is not empty > > but I'd like to get rid of these checks. So I'm curious: what is your use > > case to use an empty Packages file? > > A possible use case for having one empty input file (along with some others > that are not empty) is that a file is generated by a script. For instance, > you might have as background all the packages in your distribution, and a > script that creates pseudo-packages implementing that you want to have > certain packages installed thogether while some others are required to be not > installed.
Pietro just fixed this in git master \o/ So now empty input files will just represent a package list of zero length :) cheers, josch
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