Re: FreeBSD-Apt

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Paul Seelig wrote:
> fbsd-apt obviously is *not* a port of Debian's apt but a newly created
> program instead which is intented to work just like Debian apt.  This
> snippet is from "fbsd-apt-0.1/README":
> 
> -------------------- snip -------------------
> ABOUT: fbsd-apt is based on how apt works for debian.
>  but basicaly it is just a front end of pkg_*. If you know anything
>  about apt-get on debian , you will love fbsd-apt.
> -------------------- snip -------------------

This is pretty hilarious. 

Whoever wrote this really doesn't know much about apt. A copy of a
command line UI does not a reimplementation make. 

if ($action eq 'remove') {
...
$epackages = `ls /var/db/pkg`;

   if ($epackages =~ m/(\Q$filename\E.*)/) {
        print "Found matching package: ", $1, "\n";
        $pkg = $1;
   }

...
      while ($yn3 ne 'y') {
        print "\nIs this the package you want to delete: ", $pkg, "? [y/n]: ";
        chomp ($yn3 = <STDIN>);
        $yn3 = lc $yn3;

       if ($yn3 eq 'n') {
        die "\nAboring...\nIf the package didn't match, please be more specific.\n";
       }
     }
print "Removing package ", $pkg, "...\n";
exec "pkg_delete $pkg";

Anyway, Jason should be proud: imitation, flattery, and all that.

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