On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:18:22PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that users would react rather negatively to having packages > > (ones that they use) effectively disappear from their system, but the > > only way to be certain is to experiment with the process. You can > > easily simulate this by providing dummy packages in a private > > repository. > > ... but be careful to include the conffiles of the real package in the > dummy-packages - otherwise you'll probably break dpkg-conffile handling.
Indeed, there would be many configuration-related pitfalls in such an approach. What if the user purges the dummy package, for example? -- - mdz