>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ian> However, I disagree with the proposed syntax for the
Ian> extrafiles control area file. I think the file should
Ian> contain plain glob patterns a la fnmatch(3) (with * matching
Ian> /). The patterns should all start with /.
Please also allow brace expansion then, of course. (I really like
zsh style globbing, with the alternation and character classes. It
might be good for glibc to obtain that.)
Ian> Should dpkg --purge automatically remove such files, as it
Ian> does for conffiles ? I think not.
It implies a reference count, then, doesn't it? ... or grepping for
it in every extrafiles list each time `dpkg --purge something' is
run.
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