Previously loply wrote: > Im writing a KDE frontend for apt-get/dpkg (hybrid functionality). This will > ofcourse, be another one of those system(); intsense jobs...
In that case you're doing it wrong, just use libapt-pkg directly. > Im going to need to display dependencies on screen when the user selects a > non-installed package from an extremely large list of packagenames. I know > that the dependencies arent stored in /var/lib/dpkg/available, so I will have > to rummage through the various *_Packages files in /var/lib/apt/list, > correct? No, libapt-pkg will parse all that for you and give you proper data structures. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |

