***BOGO*** Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@xxxxxx>]

]] Steve Greenland 

| There have been proposals in the past to allow filtering of directories
| in dpkg for precisely this reason. I don't know whether it turned out to
| be infeasable, or just that no one has implemented it.

There's an outstanding patch for it in the 
http://git.err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=dpkg;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fileexclude
branch.  It'll probably be merged post-lenny.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are


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