Re: New packaging manual draft
>>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
Jason> No, you are confusing dpkg's goals with APT's high level goals, they are
Jason> seperate. dpkg has no notion of a target state, it is just a dumb install
Jason> tool, so it is making the best judgements it can, assuming something else
Jason> is making a descision on target state. Initialy this was dselect (in a
Jason> kind of haphazard way) and now it is also libapt.
Jason> dpkg is primarily only concerned with the package it is operating in,
Jason> except with processing conflicts which are checked in the 'reverse'
Jason> direction. People have tried to 'fix' this, but it really isn't broken,
Jason> see my extensive past commentary on this matter.
Fine. I've now sunk those parts of the description (and pared
down on other extraneous material as well.
>> If there are no other objections, could we move to have this
>> ratified as part of policy? I'll start the process unless someone has
>> a serious objection.
Jason> I feel all references to 'dselect' should be removed, or
Jason> writen in a more general way so that they can define a policy
Jason> that is common to all the installer front ends (dselect,
Jason> apt-get, capt, aptitude, gnome-apt, stormpkg, etc)
This new version does not mention dselect once.
Jason> A footnote indicating that 'dpkg' refers to any arbitary .deb
Jason> install tool would be good too.
I'll put that one in when a dpkg replacement actually emerges.
manoj
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