Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Off hand, I would suspect you'd take an arbitary .deb and carve it into > sub packages internally - this is for effeciency.. Other debs can come > along and clealy install over the sub packages. Ex: > > You have apt_1.1_i386.deb which contains > 'doc' > 'binary' > > And an apt_1.1_i686_bin.deb which just have > 'binary' > Inside > > Package tools would sort that out through some magic means..
Perhaps these sub-packages would be additional files in the ar file. Perhaps those files themselves should be in .deb format? Then we have sub package nesting and meta-data too.... > Of course this is all just off hand... :> Same. -- see shy jo