It occured recently to me that requiring dpkg to be installed for the .deb installation method of the Hurd is a nuisance for a significant number of people (as evidenced by periodic postings to this list) Since the cross-install scripts only use dpkg as a simple archive extractor, it seems like we should be able to replace it with calls to ar, tar, and gzip by fiddling with dpkg-hurd a little bit. I looked over the script and it looks quite doable, probably the work of a few hours at most. Does anyone know of any reason that this wouldn't be possible? If not, I may look into it this evening..
Daniel
