Hi,
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 07:08:49PM +0100, Mark Hobley wrote:
> For any particular package, the full set of binary components, optional
> documentation, and unused foreign language support files will be installed
> by the package management system.
this sentence in its so-general-form is not t
Mark Hobley wrote:
> --- On Sun, 31/8/08, Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> ... and allow user or admin to break whole system by
>> selecting half of coreutils and 2/3
>> files of dpkg. Great.
>
> I believe that the system administrator should be able to do as he likes.
> Have y
Mark Hobley wrote:
> For any particular package, the full set of binary components, optional
> documentation, and unused foreign language support files will be installed
> by the package management system.
You are not right, general. Packages are often splitted.
> A fix would be to make it possibl
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:08 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management
> system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed.
Umm, yes they can actually. Emdebian uses this functio
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:08 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote:
> There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management
> system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. This
> limits the flexibility of Debian based systems when it comes to mixed
> installations or inst
Package: general
Severity: wishlist
There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management
system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. This
limits the flexibility of Debian based systems when it comes to mixed
installations or installation on embedded or
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