On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dirk Bonne wrote: > >>>>> "Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lukas> Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also > Lukas> contained in other packages, is it removed? > > Lukas> Or, if I remove a file from perl-base, is /usr/bin/perl > Lukas> still there afterwards, because it's contained in the perl > Lukas> package? Do I risk perl and dpkg to be unable to run by > Lukas> removing perl-base? > > dpkg will refuse to remove a package if it removal would break another > installed package (except if you force dpkg)
Nooooooo... see what happened.... io# /etc/init.d/sendmail start /etc/init.d/sendmail: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory io# head -3 /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon #!/usr/bin/perl -- $version= '1.4.0.8'; # This line modified by Makefile io# ls /usr/bin/perl ls: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory That was exactly why I asked, to avoid this! I used dselect, no happy dpkg hacking. grunt. perl-base was marked Obsolete. -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch:3333 talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .