[pkg-fso-maint] install.sh: should dpkg clear paths during install?

[Steffen Möller]

On 11/06/2011 09:37 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de> writes:
>> I am striving towards it, yes. Maybe we could reduce the contrasts of
>> this picture a bit and reduce something for some packages, which just may
>> not be of too much interest for those using the mobile mostly as a
>> phone.
> 
> Hmm, what's the motivation here? To reduce space? SD cards are really
> cheap nowadays...

:) I do not know where my 512MB cards went .. Concerning size, I was
aiming at the flash and to help an automated preparation of something
like hackable1 for it. The immediate motivation is a bit or disk
I/O and the associated time that may be saved.

>> There would for instance not be too much motivation on my side to read
>> any documentation of anything on the mobile that my laptop also
>> has. So,
> 
> The man pages on your laptop might not match the versions of the
> packages that your phone has. Also there are several people who use
> debian on openmoko but don't use debian on any other system.

Accepted. The fdisk sectors/cylinders come to mind. Good point.
Anyway, please keep it in mind, also the localepurge.

Best,

Steffen