On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:23:19PM +1100, Vincent Ho wrote: > entitled to be precise when saying that the files are not removed (as > canvassed by Cameron), but overwritten. Please accept gracefully that
And *I'm* being precise when I said "foo 1.0" is removed and not replaced. A package is not its consituent files. It represents the potential for running it. That is removed and not replaced (until you fix it). Dpkg does not "fix it." Thus it removes it. His definition of "replace" is vacuous. You can't run the program, so fat lot of good the files being replaced does. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
