Re: "dselect" replacement team
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
> And on another point, dpkg does seem to be in C, but there is an older
> perl version I was inspecting, sorry for any confusion.
Yes, that's really old.
In my honest opinion you need to become quite expert on this code before
embarking on a project to replace it. I'd suggest you take some time
to annotate the dpkg/dselect source code. It might take a few weeks but
it would be worthwhile.
Thanks
Bruce
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