Will install CD and Live CD be merged in the future?

John Richard Moser nigelenki at comcast.net
Wed Mar 22 18:54:00 GMT 2006


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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:26:01PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
>> It's less than trivial but I don't see how it's "A lot harder than I
>> think."  debian packages have a directory inside them called CONTROL
>> which contains package information.
> 
> Debian packages are more than simply archives of files; you need to account
> for files changing ownership between packages, diversions, actions of
> maintainer scripts, etc.
> 
> Believe me, there is more to this than finding copies of the files which
> came from the .deb, and even that isn't straightforward.

So what do you mean, the debs will not place files in a predictable path
when installed?  If I install xorg, the 'X' binary might wind up
somewhere unpredicted?

> 

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