Re: Censoring :) (was: Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)
[about a flat-file installation tool].
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:58:02PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> If you make such a tool and people start to use it on a large scale, you'd
> better be sure you get the package dependencies right.
The context was data files which have no particular administrative
requirements. Consider a tool which would install into a "safe" part
of the namespace, and do something reasonable for a "package-name"
[perhaps using some convention which is illegal for a debian package,
to avoid any potential name conflicts.]
There are complications -- for example, it's probably reasonable for
a person to add documents to an existing collection (pseudo-package).
It's also probably reasonable to define a mapping between some url and
the local documents (allowing semi-automated or automated updating for
frequently changing documents). [[I guess I'm currently describing
something like a a cut down version of mirror, or maybe wget, with
uninstall.]]
But this idea probably needs to be fleshed out more (or shot full of
holes) before it gets implemented.
--
Raul
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