[pacman-dev] Future pacman development (3.2/4.0)

[Aaron Griffin]

Bringing this back up (don't want any in-fighting here guys).

On 8/31/07, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> So, my points are:
>
> 1) Backend configuration should be split into a different file from frontend
> configuration.
> 2) A library outside libalpm should be responsible for parsing, at least, the
> backend configuration file and feeding that into libaplm, to maximize code re-use.
>
> Please comment and help me flesh this out - I think we're on the right track
> here.  If we can get a solid idea of what would be the best way to handle
> this, I'll start hacking it together.

Travis, what's the status on this? I'm still really on the fence about
this - both sides have very strong points, and I really don't know
where to go with it....

- Aaron