On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, James A. Treacy wrote: > (*)Retrieving the files from .debs is a pain/inefficient due to the following issues: > - grabbing files from a .deb involves ar and at least one tar (usually two). I have a library that is about a magnitude faster than the ar/tar combination and pretty much makes all the complications quite managable. If we want to do this I'll make some nice python interfaces I suppose (on my todo list anyhow). Jason