On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 09:20:47PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > Sounds like keywords would be more appropriate, and more flexible... > > Agreed, I don't see anything that apt and keywords can't handle. It also > makes maintaining the archive easier, and viewing the packages more > flexible. (Those that want to get packages with a browser are probably > better off using a keyword search engine with a web based interface.) I > also see some common tricks (like ls */*.deb) breaking, requiring scripts > to be fixed. Apt is cool enough that it could have all the .debs in the same place and it'd do fine.. ie, dists/slink/main/*.deb, dists/slink/contrib/*.deb etc.. However, DON'T DO IT even though it'd work. => That would suck hard if you were using an ftp client just to go grab one file from a site real fast.. Would an optional Also-appears-in: <section>[, section ...] type header do it? You'd have to look harder if you were looking for a package by ftp, but there are some rather raw ideas in my head for dealing with that too. I'll get some of them hatched a bit more and suggest them then.
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