On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 05:20 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > I don't think this would be worth it, as Marco has also said, if the > system is hosed but you can still get to the point of obtaining a > package to install you might as well just obtain the broken files. > Of course you might have it already on apt's cache, but that's not > usually the case when you need it. :)
dpkg is useful for more than just installing new packages; a hosed system might be fixed by removing a package, running maintainer scripts, both of which dpkg is the right tool for. Not arguing for or against, just noting that you're being overly restrictive in your analysis of what a sdpkg might be used for. -Rob
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