[ale] Debian package insanity

Jason Day jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Mon May 15 14:41:12 EDT 2006


On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:11:34PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon May 15 2006 1:42 pm, Jason Day wrote:
> > ?cannot remove file `/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm': Not a directory
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > ?xterm
> > spiderman:/home/jday#
> 
> create a directory  /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm   ??

Well sure, but there are about 230 files and/or directories in the
package, and I don't want to have to create them all.  I realize I could
script it, but I'm hoping there's a better (and saner) way to remove a
package.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Jason
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