On Sun, Jan 13, 2008, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > It seems to me that, in principle, if some third package or user environment > wants something to be done for its own functional benefit, it should be its > own > responsibility to arrange that, instead of bothering thousands of other > packages with it.
Theoretically, this is supposed to only affect all packages shipping icons in particular directories; for example, you have to coordinate addition of cache handling snippets for all packages shipping files below /usr/share/icons/hicolor otherwise you'll be missing some icons when you install a package without the snippets. > On a technical level, the best approach would appear to be > implementing some sort of global dpkg postinst and postrm hooks. Yes, "triggers"; I think these were not available at the time of the first implementations; I did object to the current implementation for many reasons -- but not to use triggers -- but as I didn't produce any alternative code, the proposed implementation was merged and is now what we rely on. I'd very much like if someone would provide a simpler implementation, which I imagine could be based on triggers. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
