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Re: Re: multiarch support and dpkg 2.0 design document



On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:17 -0500, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

> * Will it actually be feasible to have filters implemented in shell
>   that will be called for every file to process? We probably need
>   an API with these scripts so that actually need to be started only
>   once (per package probably). Otherwise the fork rate will probably
>   kill us, wont it?
> 
My general thoughts on the API were that a filter would only be run once
for every dpkg run, and instructions given on stdin, results taken from
stdout.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott@canonical.com

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