On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:17:49AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > That is precisely what we are talking about. > > What you said was "We are talking about files the contents of which are > created by maintainer scripts." My point was that it doesn't matter > what creates it (the package or the maintainer script), it's > counter-intuitive that you can't track back from a file to its related > application.
If the package creates it (i.e., it's shipped in the .deb), then 'dpkg -S' will tell you about it; so you and John are in fact talking about exactly the same thing. John is just drilling down and trying to work out ways of implementing it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
