On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:46:57 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 8/5/2011 13:35, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Sure, but he's describing the behaviour as a package manager behaviour,
>> when in fact it's an OS/filesystem behaviour.
> 
> What "behavior" do you think is enforced by the file system that isn't a
> choice of the package manager?

That of allowing files to be deleted while they're open.  I don't "think" 
that's a choice of the package manager, because it is in fact how *nix 
filesystems work, regardless of what the app thinks about it.

>> But that's not what he wrote, and in writing it the way he did, he got
>> some things wrong.<shrug>   It happens, but it's important to
>> understand how he got them wrong so the above makes sense.
> 
> I think that's pretty much exactly what he wrote. I didn't see anything
> he actually got wrong.

I guess we'll have to disagree on it.  I read his description and found 
that it made no sense at all, and I'm not exactly a newbie to Linux....

Jim

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