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Re: package system
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Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E] |
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Re: package system |
Date: |
Tue, 09 May 2006 14:17:14 -0400 |
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I'd like to make everything a "private" function except something like
"pkg" or "package" which would then be called by users like this:
pkg list
pkg list-installed
pkg show
pkg install pkg_1 pkg_2
pkg remove
Good idea. Don't clutter the namespace.
The rm_rf function makes me nervous ...
Me too.
By the way, are packages automatically downloaded from the web? I think for a
first cut you don't want that functionality: it's better to download by hand
and then install (install where? A specified directory? The site directory?
Need root?). Is there an install script that comes with the package? Then pkg
install would run the script to do the unpacking.
Is there a way to create a package and automatically build the install script
from a manifest or similar?
--
Tom Holroyd, Ph.D.
I would dance and be merry,
Life would be a ding-a-derry,
If I only had a brain.
-- The Scarecrow