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From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
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Thus spake Paul Richards (paul@freebsd-services.co.uk):

> What's been stuck in my mind the last few days was Alex saying that the
> libh  package format was "intelligent" and used embedded tcl inside the
> packages to do things.

Actually, you need a binary of the libh TCL interpreter.
OTOH, you also need a binary of cvsup to follow src, I think it's
quite similar.

> That would mean that the package format itself required tcl to work at all
> and therefore writing a pkg management tool in another language would be
> impossible.

What is your definition of a pkg management tool?

Alex

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