Re: Question about dpkg -r
--- Goswin von Brederlow
<brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Hope Duryea <hope_duryea@yahoo.com> 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 wasn't an assumption -- it was a hope :)
> It was never ment for that.
Doesn't mean I can't try using it for that, though :)
And now that I have my workaround for (what I consider
to be) its "bad behaviour", I actually can. (Not that
I think its bad behaviour makes debian bad in general
-- quite the opposite -- which is why I've been trying
to find a way to make it work for me :)
> Note that with that usage dpkg will happily
> overwrite your files on install [...]
> So you are playing with fire here.
Not really, since I won't be installing anything that
already exists. (Yes, I'm absolutely certain of that,
since I'm building 90% of it myself :)
Thanks again for everything,
Hope
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