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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:23:11 -0800
From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
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I've started to build a libpkg as part of
my ongoing project to overhaul the existing
FreeBSD pkg_* tools [1].

Although my design docs are very rough still,
I'd appreciate any input on whether this general
approach would be useful to people who are considering
building other sorts of packaging tools:

http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/libpkg.3.txt

Tim Kientzle

[1]  That work has been extensively discussed
on this mailing list;  for anyone who missed it,
more details are available at:

http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/