On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 22:10 +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > I understand your arguments. The actual python-magic provided by > src:file is not available from pypi, but where is it actually used?. > A > quick grep shows its only in *install* subcommand. Now where is > *install* command is supposed to be used? Debian or Debian > derivatives, > it will not work in other places. So is this duplication of code > really > required? :-). >
Like I said earlier, it is for mere convenience. On a disconnected machine, you don't want an apt-offline tarball uncompressed, just to know that you need to fulfill another N number of dependencies before you can even use it. That's one reason I'm no fan of using any out of tree python module. > I hope I've clarified myself. Install is used on Debian like system > only > which all provides same python-magic package. So why this code is > still > need to be embdedded? By that statement, there should be no bundles. The package relationship should be taking care of everything. In an ideal world yes. But the use case that apt-offline serves, it needs to have a backup plan. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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