On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:22:35AM +0300, Matti Airas wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:57:17PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > dpkg -s > > > > you really should rtfm... > > Well, thank you for suggesting so kindly. The '-s' switch does exactly > what I want, but the manual page didn't even slightly hint of it.
huh thats funny: $ man dpkg [...] dpkg -s | --status package-name ... Report status of specified package. This just dis- plays the entry in the installed package status database. Debian Project April 12, 1998 4 > > since when did we give a damn about commercial environments? > > Since the time we began working within them, and since the time we > wanted to maximise the value of the skillset we have invested our > precious time in. Someday you will as well. i think not. > I never read a single word anywhere stating that Debian would be > anti-commercial. there is also nothing saying we will do retarded things like switch to inferior technology so as to give corporates warm fuzzies. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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