Re: Outside of Debian (Re: Package splitting and upgrades)

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 04-Mar-02, 00:17 (CST), Lex Spoon <lex@cc.gatech.edu> wrote: 
> Lots of the layout still seems odd to me. Why is there one level of
> categorization, followed by division by architecture, and then a
> second level of categorization? Architecture either first or last
> would make more sense.

Historical. Before package pools, having the architecture at a higher
level made it much easier to mirror a specific architecture.

>  Also, why does there *have* to be an override file, if I
> don't want to override anything? 

This one mystifies me, too. But did you know you can pass /dev/null as
the overrides file?

Steve
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Steve Greenland