reopen 23953 quit On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > The function of these scripts is to conditionally install ae as "EDITOR" > using alternatives. If this fails the rest of the ae install is not > effected, and ae will be fully functional.
Sure, so there is no problem setting -e then. > As ae may be the only editor available at the moment, it would be > undesirable for the install/upgrade to fail because the > update_alternatives calls failed, leaving the machine without an editor How so? The only difference would be that now dpkg knows about it. If update-alternatives is going to fail, it will fail whether or not you set -e. > I am closing this bug, but I think policy should reflect the reason set -e > is used, and when it is counter productive, its use should not be > required. I disagree. You haven't given a good enough reason for it to not have -e. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.0beta is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]