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Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 13:23:36 +0200
From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To: Patrik Sundberg <ps@radiac.mine.nu>
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Subject: Re: Feature request
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On Mon 2000-05-29 (12:24), Patrik Sundberg wrote:
> yes - in a way, but that wasn't what I wrote, I talked about the problem of
> new versions using bogus @pkgdep's in their CONTENTS-files. But my proposed
> scheme with multilevel /var/db/pkg-entries could maybe fit into an upgrade
> scheme aswell - needs to know when to move the +REQUIRED_BY entries and
> other stuff too, upgrade is bigger than what I am talking about.

I can't see the major difference between "/var/db/pkg/gtk-1.2.3" and
"/var/db/pkg/gtk/1.2.3".

Why would we want the multilevel /var/db/pkg system again?

Neil
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