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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:09:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: packagetool.tcl
Cc: libh@FreeBSD.org, Richy Kim <richy@apple.com>,
	Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
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On 19-Jun-01 Will Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:12:39PM +0200, Alexander Langer
> (alex@big.endian.de) wrote:
>> I plan to merge the OpenPackages work completely into libh, so that
>> everything is possible from TCL (kinda easy once OpenPackages has a
>> package system .-) )
> 
> I'm curious.  What part of OP do you intend to merge?  AFAIK libh
> is a package library and as such would be part of OP, not the other
> way around.

No.  libh contains a package library among other things.  It is also a user
interface library that provides a clean wrapper around the package library.
It is modular enough (I think and hope) that one can simply "plug in" another
package library at the bottom to support multiple package styles.

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