On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote:

> 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.

Looks like it got at least partially implemented:

http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/25-dpkg-filtering.html

No idea of the status.

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]] 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.

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