[pacman-dev] Why alpm_list.h?

Moritz Wilhelmy ml+pacman at barfooze.de
Fri Apr 2 21:10:35 CEST 2010


Hello,

since I started to dig into pacman's code, I've also started to wonder why
exactly libalpm reinvents the wheel by using it's own list implementation
rather than sys/queue.h (see QUEUE(3) for details). Is it for backwards
compatibility or what are the exact reasons to handle it this way?

Kind Regards,
Moritz


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