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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:01:57 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>
Cc:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>, Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, binup@FreeBSD.org, libh@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Subject:   Re: current project steps
Message-ID:  <20011027210157.D1534@tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20011027131726.A68253@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org>; from anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:17:27PM -0400
References:  <20011020202153.A76835@FreeBSD.org> <20011026135930.03D1637B406@hub.freebsd.org> <20011026165952.D11804@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <20011026221254.A36515@tao.org.uk> <20011026172027.F11804@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <20011026223033.A44573@tao.org.uk> <20011027131726.A68253@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org>

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Thanks for taking the time to answer the points you have.  My comments
are below.

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:17:27PM -0400, The Anarcat wrote:
>=20
> Just to make a quick resume..=20
>=20
> - Libh is a *package* management/access/creation system.
>=20
> - It doesn't handle build procedures.=20
>=20
> - It currently uses a db backend, but this could be rewritten to use
>   multiple backends.
>=20
> - Libh package management system is really complete and already works
>   fairly well. It provides upgrade facilities, integrity checking, safe
>   installs, etc.=20

It sounds to me that libh has its fingers in too many pies.  It's not a
clean API; and should be split into several, or rely on others.  The API
that we're talking about here is one such that the libh API should rely
on for its job of managing packages, but at the moment it's trying to
dig too deep IMO.  It's a bit like an application also implementing TCP
and ethernet drivers in one library.
=20
Joe

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