On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:20:50AM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> I've thought a bit about this now.
>
> I apologise, to everyone that's added a filter to bounce my mail ;). I
> should have thought more, sent less garbage on that last mail.
As long as there is content which makes sense in your mails I will not do that
but just save the mail to my archive :)
> Anyway, a few *short* quips to begin discussion on:
>
> What are the possibilities for doing debian-admintool with CORBA?
>
> this could be achieved by simply splitting dpkg up into two segments: a
> library implementing rudimentary tasks, ie
>
> configure( packagename ), install( packagename ), purge( packagename )
>
> and a client with logic as dpkg is now.
I think this is crazy. This could be a future project of course but I don't
think we should concentrate on something like that now.
Instead we should provide an extensible framework which is easy to implement
with the smallest set of features and can easily enhanced to fit our needs.
> so, dpkg could theoretically operate on any machine in the network -- simply
> by instantiating one interface per computer representing its package
> management / configuration.
dpkg is the lowest level of package management. In my opinion we should make
dpkg easy to interface for higher level tools and still make it possible to
use it by manually.
I will try to explain my idea after Star Trek is over :)
cu
Torsten
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