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 have to make sure it works on all kinds of obscure platforms actually using the thing. (And yes, I have used ar and tar to extract debs, and consider it a quite useful feature.) The .deb format is _fixed_ -- this isn't AVI where you just “plug in another codec” and hope it works. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]