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Re: Re: multiarch support and dpkg 2.0 design document



On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 13:45 -0500, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 05:19:29PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > The PDF is the first time I've ever sat down and wrote, in one document,
> > what I've been thinking about for the last couple of years.  While I
> > think it's pretty neat, I'm hoping others will be able to find holes or
> > problems with it -- or improvements they can make.
> 
> One more question: Is making backups of objects to replace/remove the
> job of the class itself or of dpkg? While the first is way more flexible
> the latter is probably going to be more reliable and robust...
> 
I'm not sure yet :)  Probably it's a function both can employ, e.g. dpkg
makes a back-up of anything it expects to be replaced, while the class
can ask for backups of anything else.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott@canonical.com

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