Re: Bug#39227: apt: archtable does not support hurd
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> The system you propose is fast to implement of course, but it will trap us
> again in other limitations. It does not really solve the underlying problem
> (Manoj would probably call it half-baken). It's not scalable and not overly
> flexible in my eyes.
I have proposed nothing. I mearly stated that you cannot remove the
meaning we place on the Architecture field, it is a technical limitation
of our tools.
> There are no Debian versions. There are some traditional defaults, butin the
> end everyone uses what works for him. egcs package relies on i486, other on
You call them traditional defaults, I call them the Debian versions of the
names. Either way they are different from what gnu calls them.
> Yes, I do. I also think that it is a step in the right direction. But then I
> think that your idea is not radical enough, not going far enough. I think it
> is the wrong place to put this information, too. apt should not be concerned
> with this information (I also think that dpkg should not be. Both should
> merely check existing dependencies/provides).
I'm not sure that is a very good attitude, it is very very limiting in
what can be done on behalf of the user if the tools have no idea what they
are really doing.
> If you agree, I will make up a patch for that. I am still interested in
> discussion of any long term solutions, but I would prefer to do this outside
> of this special problem getting apt to run on the Hurd proper :)
Ok, make a patch for that.
Jason
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