On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 01:12:06AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > Alternate question: why do we even have to package up flat text files? > Why can't we just import them into debian in some regular manner? [I can > see that naming convention is important, but are there any other issues > beyond that? -- I mean, besides the issue of the current implementation > of dpkg.]
Exactly. A better designed package manager would support modular package format handling. then we could simply do (let's call the package manager hpm for now): hpm -i blacksteel.etheme instead dpkg -i etheme-blacksteel.deb hpm -i realvideo.tar.gz instead alien; dpkg hpm -i somestuff.rpm instead alien; dpkg hpm -i CPAN:mymodule hpm -i CTAN:mytexstyle hpm -i gutenberg:faust and so on. I think we will be able to do this in a few years, because we have to to cope with the grow of free information and data available. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/