At 23:05 Uhr +0900 22.01.2002, Peter O'Gorman wrote: >Hi, >I just had a thought on the "plan" and new file format. > >Instead of going to a different package file format keep the one we >have and use >ar or tar to make them into one file. The archive could also contain >the patches.
I think this is a bad idea. > >Fink would then look at the file names in the archive to determine >which options to allow. > >For example: >xyz-1.2.3-1.infu is an archive which contains >xyz.info >xyz.patch >xyz-gnome.info >xyz-gnome.patch >xyz-ssl.info >xyz-gnome-ssl.info >xyz-gnome-ssl.patch I think it is inferior for various reasons: * you can't simply use a text editor to edit the package this way * you still end up duplicating 90% of the contents of the packages, thus completly canceling the purpose of allowing "variants" in the first place. Essentially, it takes away some flexibility by adding nothing in return. Max >I don't know if this would be harder/stupider than the current >suggestions, but thought I'd throw it out there and watch it get >shot down :-). Sure :) Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
