On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:00:51AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > In the last case, there should be a way to do this _easily_. Currently > the only way to do this is parsing dpkg --list output, which is mucho > ugly.
I'd actually prefer the file check, and not involve the packaging system in the day-to-day running of the system. (Example: if I'm installing and configuring a firewall, I'd like to be able to delete the dpkg files from the final image before flashing it.) Richard Braakman