[about a flat-file installation tool]. On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:58:02PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > If you make such a tool and people start to use it on a large scale, you'd > better be sure you get the package dependencies right.
The context was data files which have no particular administrative requirements. Consider a tool which would install into a "safe" part of the namespace, and do something reasonable for a "package-name" [perhaps using some convention which is illegal for a debian package, to avoid any potential name conflicts.] There are complications -- for example, it's probably reasonable for a person to add documents to an existing collection (pseudo-package). It's also probably reasonable to define a mapping between some url and the local documents (allowing semi-automated or automated updating for frequently changing documents). [[I guess I'm currently describing something like a a cut down version of mirror, or maybe wget, with uninstall.]] But this idea probably needs to be fleshed out more (or shot full of holes) before it gets implemented. -- Raul