On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:20:57PM +0100, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
Or maybe it should just be directly written in a language where ppl could more easily write a gui (or other tools) in? Like python maybe. That way, anyone can write pacman related tools without reinventing the wheel every single time. Seeing all these tools either calling pacman directly, or redoing all the work themselves by parsing the config and metainfo files make me cry.
we use libpacman is several places: * splitting the repo to several cds (if foo depends on bar, then foo can't be on cd1 if bar is on cd2) * testsuite (for exaple for checking if foo depends on bar, then bar should be in the repo as well) * gfpm probably at other places as well. and this would not be possible if originally there would be no libalpm. so don't think it was a useless work! :)