On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:23:56PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 12/18/05, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:56:10PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > Why would this be huge? > > > Why is it that hard to plugin another codec? > > > > You'd have to rewrite about every single tool in the world handling .debs, > > make up a transition plan and upgrade from that. Not to mention that you'd > > Why is the knowledge of how to decode a .deb distributed over so many tools? Probably, it's because there's no [C] library that would allow those tools to deal with .deb files. Hence everybody start writing the tool by creating one more parser for the .deb format.
-- Misha
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