On Thursday 20 December 2001 08:53, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >Geoffrey Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think the easiest and most non-intrusive way would be to add a requires >> for unzip. Ok, that's half a meg of bloat ... well... > >I'm strongly against this option, since the problem only appears >in some non-trivial situations for so-called "experts".
I concur. I managed to end up with the situation because I made an installation from an inconsistant local HD mirror. I experienced a hard disk failure, but my cooker was on a second hard-drive. I booted an older cdrom, and used the shell to make an hd.img floppy, and installed just enough to get the system back on it's feet since I had no way of knowing which pacakges were intact. (HDD failure was in mid-rsysnc with the wtfo mirror) Once the machine was running, I installed packages as I needed them (and I *needed* xmms, as I have no other way to play music at home than my computer) This situation is, IMHO, freakishly unlikely to manifest itself on a new system installed from a complete mirror. While I would never claim to be an "expert," I can usually figure things out, given enough time, as in this case. -- *Chuck*
