On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > Right. Do you regard this as a problem?
It would be a lot smarter to check if the install would succeed before unpacking it. If you were replacing a previous alsa-modules package, the old one will be uninstalled and non-functional (please correct me me if I'm wrong) and you won't have any sound until you get around to fixing it. If you were replacing a previous ndiswrapper-modules, now your network card is hosed and you *can't* use apt -f to fix the problem unless you connect to the network the other way. Transactions should be atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable. This fails the "atomic" and "isolated" tests. Don't sweat it, I can very easily write my own wrapper around dpkg -i that first dumps the depends and refuses to install if they aren't met.
