Re: Status

[प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A)]

2006/6/13, Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:

    The functionality we want in stowfs is the functionality of dpkg (dpkg
    reports if any dependencies are not resolved to any program using it),
    not apt-get.

I agree.

I have been following these discussions and got a clearer picture of where we stand with respect to packaging. The idea I had with Universal package Manager  ( 
http://hurd.in/bin/view/Hurd/UniversalPackageManager ) was implementing apt-get in filesystem. May be I failed to express what I thought about it before.

* So we will be using stowfs as backend.
* UPM will implement apt-get, emerge, yum functionality on top of stowfs

May be it isn't a top priority now and we can focus on stowfs and apt-get on top of it first and think about it once we have the basic setup. 

Why I feeel apt-get could be implemented in filesystem is beacuse the flexibility hurd provide in implementing filesystems. 

Happy hacking 
Praveen

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