I was thinking more about this, and I was finally able to put a finger on
why I don't like package splitting as a solution.
We know from prior experience with splitting packages for large
arch-independent data that one of the more common mistakes that we'll make
is to move the wrong files: to put
* David Kalnischkies [2012-02-16 03:59 +0100]:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 00:39, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >>> it needs to find and remove foo:*
foo:all (or foo:any) instead of foo:* would save the need to quote it.
> > Actually, why would that be the behavior? Why would dpkg --purge foo not
> > j
* Russ Allbery [2012-02-16 10:43 -0800]:
> * Users who want to co-install separate architectures will immediately
> encounter a dpkg error saying that the files aren't consistent. This
> means they won't be able to co-install the packages, but dpkg will
> prevent any actual harm from happeni
Carsten Hey writes:
> * Russ Allbery [2012-02-16 10:43 -0800]:
>> * Users who want to co-install separate architectures will immediately
>> encounter a dpkg error saying that the files aren't consistent. This
>> means they won't be able to co-install the packages, but dpkg will
>> prevent
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