If there is anything called "users-requests" this certainly should be placed there for the kind Debian developers to take notice. Surely, dpkg --search / list / listfiles / print-avail is no replacement for a dedicated package/ wrapper for these purposes.
Just to find out what all packages are installed, there are no easy solutions. Yes, everyting is available in /var/lib/dpkg/status in pure ASCII form inclusive of which all software are installed/ purged etc, it is certainly not an easy task to go through the whole list. There is a need for something like gnorpm/ kpackage/ glint used in RH and other RH based distros. Even YaST in SuSE serves fine. For plain tar ball packages a bash script "pkgtool" of SlackWare is good enough. Then why not something for deb packages ? There is surely a need for gaining more support for this cause until the developers take notice. Before somebody points out, why not do it yourself .... I have started on a hack of "pkgtool" today. I'll post it on this list once ready. I do not know enough programming to try fancier stuff ! Afterall, Computers for me is a hobby only. I am a full-time doctor by profession. USM Bish On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 19 2000, John Ackermann wrote: > > I heartily agree with Daniel's plea. Eveb a simple listing of what > > configuration files the package uses (and where they are), and where it > > stores data (i.e., does it use space in /var) would be a big help. > > All packages *do* already have such files. Documentation files > for package <package> are intended to be in the > /usr/share/doc/<package> directory. Configuration files in > Debian are (or should be) accessible from the /etc directory. > > If a given package doesn't do this, then this particular > package has a bug (but not the Distribution as a whole). > > Frankly, this is a pretty standard thing and many people would > want it. Why would you think the packages don't have such an > important feature? > > > []s, Roger... > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ > Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/nectar/ > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- : ------------------------- Its a BishMail :-) ------------------------- :
