On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> Does dpkg et al. have something similar, and if not, would it be >> considered something useful? I can try to get/provide details if >> it would be helpful. > >No we don't, and I consider it bloat in the package manager.
I havent decided wether I like the idea or not.. Have to wait and see I guess. >We can already have devices inside a package iirc, and creating >them in the postinst is a better approach. If they are owned by a package, it does seem like a good approach I guess. I'll have to see why this isn't considered currently. Thanks, TTYL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris ----------------------------------------------------------------------
