On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Drake Diedrich wrote: > > Under the Irix packaging system (quite nice UI except that it has to > > handle Irix packages..) packages exist in a hierarchy, with lowest level > > packages quite fine grained. > > Wow, I quite like this. How could we do it?
This is the ultimate in micropackaging - doing something like that would solve so many different requests in one big *splat*. We could have sparc32/64 binaries, PIII optimized binaries, systems without /usr/doc, etc. Off hand, I would suspect you'd take an arbitary .deb and carve it into sub packages internally - this is for effeciency.. Other debs can come along and clealy install over the sub packages. Ex: You have apt_1.1_i386.deb which contains 'doc' 'binary' And an apt_1.1_i686_bin.deb which just have 'binary' Inside Package tools would sort that out through some magic means.. Of course this is all just off hand... :> Jason