Duane Whitty suggested: > I'm a little out of practice, however, perhaps the routines > that manipulate the ports meta-data could be sufficiently > agnostic about how the data is being manipulated that it > would facilitate experimentation with different > back-ends at a later time....
Yes. This is an excellent idea. I wrote up some of my own ideas in this direction a few years ago: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/libpkg.3.txt The basic idea was, as you say, to provide an abstract interface that separates the data storage from what the tools require. Unfortunately, libarchive (which started as part of a package tools overhaul) has absorbed more time than I expected, so I've not had a chance to get back to these ideas. Tim Kientzle _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
