Re: Plans for Lenny's install-info

2007-04-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Nathanael Nerode writes (Re: Plans for Lenny's install-info): Make it a new install-info package. All info viewers should depend on the package providing install-info and update-info-dir; 'info' isn't the only info viewer. (pinfo for instance) Package: info Installed-Size: 328 Is it

Re: Plans for Lenny's install-info

2007-04-18 Thread Nicolas François
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:47:34AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Nathanael Nerode writes (Re: Plans for Lenny's install-info): Make it a new install-info package. All info viewers should depend on the package providing install-info and update-info-dir; 'info' isn't the only info viewer.

Re: Question about dpkg -r

2007-04-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hope Duryea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope Duryea writes (Re: Question about dpkg -r ): dpkg did not need to create /usr (the symlink), but it wants to -- and does -- remove it just the same. As I mentioned before, there are plenty of other

Re: Question about dpkg -r

2007-04-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow writes (Re: Question about dpkg -r): Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So this package: usr usr/bin usr/bin/hello is fine but this one: usr/bin/hello is wrong. Which happens or did happen at some point.

Re: Question about dpkg -r

2007-04-18 Thread Hope Duryea
--- Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope Duryea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you saying debian packages can only be used on systems where the entire system is comprised solely of things installed as debian packages? I was hoping I could use debian packages for

Re: Question about dpkg -r

2007-04-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hope Duryea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Putting this stuff into /usr/local isn't an option -- but I'm a bit confused about what you mean. How is /usr/local, if I create it myself, any different from my creating /usr myself? There is no package in debian containing /usr/local or anything below

Re: Question about dpkg -r

2007-04-18 Thread Hope Duryea
--- Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope Duryea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't have a debian system. I have a system that I had hoped I could install additional files into, using debian packages to do that. Then your assumptions and dpkgs assumptions collide. It