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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> I have two questions:
> 1) when we summon something, do we make any attempt to unpack it, or
> even see if we can unpack it? Or is all that unpacking stuff /only/
> in the cast codepath?

AFAIK only cast tries to unpack anything.

> 2) if 1 is false we have a serious problem removing rpmunpack (as much
> as I hate it so). otoh could we make function wrappers to rpmunpack and
> cpio to do something vaguely more useful than just spew errors in the
> unlikely event that a package is using rpms?

So we should be safe here...

-sandalle

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