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Re: Is it time to abandon Dpkg?

On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

> OK, someone please step up and say "I'm going to do this", and then do it.
> The projects we need done to keep dpkg/dselect viable are:
> 
> 1. Separate the dselect back-end into a shared library and document its
>    interface. Make dselect work with it.

As I have already been working on this one, you can put me down for it. My
goal is to provide a library that I can use to rebuild DoList as a C
program, linked directly to the dpkg functionality that I desire, rather
than going through a "system" call to dpkg. This should be adequate for
any front end installation program to use as well.
I did some research into the dpkg source over the holidays, and, although
some of this functionality is already in a library (static) it seems to
still need some re-organization to get all the necessary functions
available to program builders.

> 
> 2. Localize dpkg and dselect.
> 
I'm not sure what you mean by this, so I'm probably not the person you
need ;-)

> 3. Write a new front-end.
> 
I would like to see several people make attempts at this. The library
should provide the tools needed to easily experiment with new front-ends.
Then we can just let the user community decide which is/are the "best"
one/ones.

Luck,

Dwarf

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