Thread: [Sandbox] App Manager disallows installs that fill partition
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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-10-29 , 13:17
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#6
Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
After working with the debian packaging system (and surely it knows which directories the files go to), it seems like it should be straightforward to calculate which filesystem each file in a package goes on.
What I'm saying is that the packager has no idea how these partitions look like on the user side, only the presumption that nothing has been changed compared to the factory layout. In time, people might reformat, repartition, change filesystems, rebase/clone their roots, etc, all of which can influence the actual location (and amount) of actual package content.