On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:41:50AM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:45:42PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Note that todays technology eliminates the need for a ftp hierarchy that > > resembles the architectural design of our software hierarchy. Most people > > are accessing packages through apt, web interface or similar. > > So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all distributions are > simply a packages file with the relevant constellation. > Makes a lot of sense, but that also means making apt mandatory.
It also means finding some way of choosing which packages should be in which Packages file. Currently we use dpkg-scanpackages and physically move files around (ie, this is yet more scripts to be written). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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