> > Surely, we've got a few FSSTND participants besides you lurking here. > > Dan Quinlan, are you out there? > > I'll try to get this discussed by the FSSTND, but there are some > rather heated discussions going on around the proposed BSD merger, and > some people don't seem to like me very much.
:-) > > OK, but why even let the installation get to the preinst script? How > > about we add a new dependency field in the control files which tells > > dpkg that the specified packages/versions must already be completely > > installed (unpacked *and* configured) before installing the new > > package? This seems *much* cleaner to me and won't clutter up some > > directory with a bunch of xyz-available links to /bin/true. > > But these fields would only be used by the base packages, and the base > packages depend on practically nothing except the libc (and sometimes > each other). > > If I provide and document such a field all sorts of other packages > will start to use it, which will break people's attempts to do > bulk-upgrade. So. Why would we treat these misuses differently than any other bugs? David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
