On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:41:50AM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:45:42PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Note that todays technology eliminates the need for a ftp hierarchy that
> > resembles the architectural design of our software hierarchy. Most people
> > are accessing packages through apt, web interface or similar.
> > So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all distributions are
> simply a packages file with the relevant constellation.
> Makes a lot of sense, but that also means making apt mandatory.
It also means finding some way of choosing which packages should be in
which Packages file. Currently we use dpkg-scanpackages and physically
move files around (ie, this is yet more scripts to be written).
Cheers,
aj
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