Re: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages

[Kermit Tensmeyer <kermit@brite.net>]

>>>>> "SL" == Steve Lamb <morpheus@rpglink.com> writes:

    SL> Thursday, September 02, 1999, 12:32:09 PM, Kermit wrote:
    >> the idea of using a directory instead of a database, allows
    >> usage before the database is available and allows the
    >> developer/debugger to visually identify what the system
    >> -thinks- it has installed.

    SL>     The downside is that it inceases the inode usage.

 True, but this is being used during the install. The entire directory 
set can be removed at the end of the install.

   I assume that the same information is in the database.


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