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  • From: "David Forsythe" <dforsythe AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Poly-p man" <polypolyman AT ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: poly-p-ux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Poly-p-ux] I'm writing you a package manager
  • Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:35:04 -0400

Actually, looking at these scripts, it looks like rewriting this stuff in C will add nothing but bloat.  I may patch these scripts or consolidate them, but the motivation needs to be there.  We'll see what happens in the coming weeks.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:29 PM, David Forsythe <dforsythe AT gmail.com> wrote:
Dropping this to the list.  Sorry about that, I'm not very awake right now...




Seems reasonable.  Send me the current scripts you're using so I can with make them an extension or base the entire manager off of them.


On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Poly-p man <polypolyman AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
Sweet! If you can implement a few improvements over what I have, that would be
great. Basically, a few things I want:

Right now, two packages with similar names won't work. Take fortune - if the
main program were "fortune", then any package with "fortune" in the name
would be renamed. Currently, it is "fortune6", and I also
have "fortunes-good" and "fortunes-off", which works, but if it
were "fortune", "fortunes-good" and "fortunes-off" wouldn't work.

Also, having some sort of revdep-rebuild would be nice - currently,
uninstalling packages could be harmful if other things depend on them.

A few things to remember:

1. Low memory usage. These systems are old.

2. Don't assume network/internet, though if you added it as an extra feature,
it would be nice.

3. It must match or improve upon the current snailage scripts.

Thanks,
poly-p man
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