Re: New package system design draft

Jan> I would love to see (for the purposes of the install tool) Jan> the debian dpkg-style weaker dependencies. Also I would Jan> dearly love a list of features provided (or at least major Jan> and minor modes). For those of you interested and with a little time to read about it, if you look at: <URL:http://www.debian.org/~elphick/ddp/>;, and follow the links under "Developers' Manuals", you can read about the Debian package system. The `control' file is documented in: <URL:http://bittersweet.sysc.pdx.edu/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/man/man5/deb-con... Those of you in the XEmacs Beta list are welcome to browse my manuals through that interface. `man2html' is the CGI program, it's reading PATHINFO to know what manual you want... the clickers inside the page ought to work if they don't... let me know. See also: dpkg-deb, debhelper, and links within. `debian/rules' is a chmod +x makefile with a shebang line at the top. It's the starting point to initiate a package build, with standard targets. `debhelper' is a set of perl script utilities for use by `debian/rules' targets. There's a searchable via .../doc/HTML/ on the same host. (bittersweet) Please don't post this URL far and wide; I'm NOT a website. It's my workstation. I guess if it gets out of hand, I'll just password the web server. For now it's open to yous though, official business.