On Fri, 23 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I prefer a non-hierarchical reorganization as well but I suggest that the > section directories are listed in one file per Distribution and that all > scripts read this file first before doing anything.
The scripts which do operations on the hierarchy discover all the .deb files with find. The filenames are then stored in the Packages file, which other scripts read. A few of my scripts have to make more constraining assumptions of the hierarchy because they must deal with source files and new packages. It's true that the new .dsc files provide a more formal mechansism for associating source files with binary files, but nothing uses them yet Really the key point is that using a section of "devel/scripting_languages" should in principle work, but I don't have time to fix my scripts if it doesn't. Guy