On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 23:30:01 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > [...] and the hierarchical format > that apt uses doesn't have a readily-usable parser outside of apt (at > least not that I know of). W/o getting into the debate of what format is better or nicer, the configuration format from which APT's is based, the ISC config format, is available in libisccfg. Regards, Guillem