[Apt-Rpm] Aptness -- a simplified interface for libapt-pkg

João Abecasis jpra at caixamagica.pt
Tue Sep 18 06:33:36 PDT 2007


João Abecasis wrote:
> While I'm bashing the library interface (sorry!... :-p), I also think
> there should be a clearer separation of the interface into independent
> functional modules. For instance, I'd like to see repository (apt,
> repomd, urpmi...), package manager (rpm, dpkg), actions (install,
> remove...) and dependency resolution algorithms (upgrade,
> dist-upgrade...) all orthogonal to each other.

... forgot to mention the download manager, error reporting and
configuration backend. Probably still forgetting others.


João Abecasis



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