Klee had an interesting idea on this, that makes more sense I think. If you look at all the different kinds of programs that are being packages you notice that a lot of them fall into quite well-defined categories such as Imake-based, automake-based, GNU-style, etc.
It would make sense to make a single tool for each type that can be used to handle a package of that type. So you get db_automake, db_gnu, etc. I really really don't want to see something like debhelper or other debianization-tools in dpkg. dpkg is the package manager, and dpkg-dev has the minimal things necessary to build package and manage archives of packages. It is the basis on which we should build, and extensions to make packaging easier should be seperate. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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