On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Adam Heath > > | On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > | > apt invokes dpkg on the command line and due to maximum command > | > line length it sometimes is split in an unfortunate place. > | > > | > This will be fixed once dpkg is librarified. > | > | Er, no, it won't. > > Please follow my mail-followup-to and don't send me private replies. > > Also, according to http://www.netsplit.com/blog/tech/debian/dpkg: > > > The libdpkg library > > > > This is mostly an act of re-engineering the current code so that the > > dpkg command-line tool is simply a wrapper around a libdpkg library. > > > > Front-ends and APT would link to this library instead of using the > > command-line. One of the most immediately obvious things this solves > > is the line-length issue that requires APT to break up invocations, > > sometimes in bad places. > > so I think you are wrong here.
Er, hardly. libdpkg will contain *extremely* low-level stuff. Reading/writing debs(ar/tar/gzip/bzip/checksum stuff). It won't contain higher-level anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
