Re: IOslave for apt-cache

[Derek Broughton <dbroughton@lincsat.com>]

Hendrik wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2003 18:56 schrieb Sylvain Joyeux:
>> I wanted to discover the ioslaves, and for that I wrote a little one which
>> provides some functionalities of apt-cache into konqueror.
>> More informations, with the source code, are available at
>> http://lpnotfr.free.fr/devel.html#kio_apt
>>
>> If you give it a try, please tell me if it is useful or not for you, and if
>> you want to see something included in it.
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to enhance kpackage instead?

Perhaps, but kpackage has always been too slow to start to use _just_ for this
sort of thing.  If it's possible for kpackage to reuse what Sylvain has
provided, that'll be great, but I quite like this and will probably use it
often.
--
Derek