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Re: RFC: The Future of Solving Dependency Problems in APT (SAT, CUDF)



On Do, 2010-12-23 at 16:14 +0100, Pietro Abate wrote:
> A small whish item since we are here: can we also expose the function
> that computes the installation order. It would be nice to somehow
> formalize this algorithm and let the "user" access the list in some
> other way then throught a debugging option...

The installation order is done by class pkgOrderList in
apt-pkg/orderlist.cc and is a container that you can order, and the
ordering appears to be complicated (1100 lines total, 695 SLOC) and
AFAIK also has some problems. If we can improve this situation, I would
be happy.
-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.



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