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Re: Apt for organising things other than executables?



On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 03:51:53PM +0100, Max wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Is there a dead easy way of registering a file as having a dependency in
> apt?  Can you perhaps recommend a web site that's nice and short and easy
> to follow with instructions on how to do this?  And oh, in addition to
> short and easy to follow can it also have translations into all known and
> unknown languages and be written in a chartacter set recognised by my
> computer that runs on 19 1/2 bit chars please? :-) Just short and easy to 
> follow would do swell.

Either this is a joke or there's something I really don't know about.
Let's assume I'm ignorant.
What are 19 1/2-bit characters?  Is this some kind of Unicode encoding?

-- hendrik

> I'd like to play with using apt as a general method of organising my files 
> and deleting them when they are no longer in demand.

It sound as if you need some king of persistent object system with a
garbage collector.  Does anyone know of any?

-- hendrik

> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Maximillian
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