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Dpkg and the future

 I think we shouldn't drop dpkg. Dpkg has many features and serves well
for the Debian needs.
 Adopting RPMS would be like becoming RedHat itself. The next step will
be... why duplicate work in packaging (e.g.) bind? =)
 If there were definite needs that would be resolverd by the switch.. Or
if there were a lot of commercial applications released at RPMs... But
neither one is true...


 I think that these are the thinks that should be done to enhance dpkg:

Enhance one of tools used in building the .deb to parse a file that tells
which is the funcion of each file. The tool would process the files
according to the standards.
 Something like this:
manpages=tool.1,anothertool.1
binaries(sudir=thetools)=src/tool,src/anothertool
         ^
          binaries in subdirs, like mh. Packages should be able to
override things, the rest of the details are still handled by the current
standards.

Design a library of package handling functions. Dpkg should be built with
this library, and dselect too. Dselect (and other package tools) won't
call dpkg, they would use the library. This would be great because we will
be able to change details in the packaging system only by modifying the
library. And it would be a lot easier to write tools that deal with
packages (like my html pages generator).

Uff... It's so hard to write in this language.. =)

Nicolás Lichtmaier.-
nick@feedback.com.ar


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