Re: Comparing PackageFS and GNU PM

[Luca Ferroni]

Il Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:42:21 +0200,  "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:

>    I don't think this layer add complexity to your translator, because
>    it shouldn't affect it in any way.  It is just seen by the user,
>    not by the system.
> 
> Well, the thing is, I still don't understand what it would be used
> for; only what it would do more or less.  Do you mean that it would be
> something like the package-by-category translator I suggested before?

The read part is similar to the package-by-category translator.
The write part (symlink or mdir syscall) installs the package in the Hurdish 
way.
That is:
- call GSC and make symlink

A user who run this translator will experience these facilities

Bye
Luca

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