Re: Status

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   BTW using the pkgsrc format or a compatible one (extended) would be
   nice.  IMHO

I agree.  Is the following format compatible?

PACKAGE-NAME/bin/COMMAND
PACKAGE-NAME/share/info/COMMAND.info
...

This is the most basic format. It will be hard to move everything down
one subdirectory, since one should be able to simply do `tar -xf
foo.tgz', without getting the current working directory full of
garbage.

   stut stores a independent database of installed packages and
   versions.  It does what stow doesn't does.

But stow does this, it stores it in the file-system.

   BTW stowfs stores the information as a translator for the
   filesystem, so, what would you wanna setup?

Sorry, I don't understand.

   I know what GNU have and what Debian have and how works, but i'm
   just trying to expose a "new" view or possibility for the GNU
   package system.

I atleast do not see what new views you are showing.  I'm all for new
ideas, but as of right your post as been more of a--no offence
meant--advertisment, and hasn't really explained what is a `new' view
or possibility for the GNU package system.  Could you explain what
this `new' view is?  How is it usefull?  What does STUT/pkgsrc achive
that is stowfs/GSC cannot?

Happy hacking.