On 07/14/2012 08:48 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Pushing the logic further, I wonder if that suggests that the Debian binary > package format could be simplified to be a simple tarball with the metadata > in /var/lib/dpkg, instead of the current format with a data and a control > tarballs joined together in the 'ar' format. > > This would not prevent dpkg to store the metadata somewhere else than > /var/lib/dpkg later, as it would be easy to intercept the files and treat them > appropriately, similar to what is being done with files in usr/share/doc with > multi-arch packages. Also, once using a simple tarball as binary package, > arbitrary files become trivial to extract quickly, or perhaps even to update > (like for translations). > > Have a nice day, > Are you writing that ar is a bad choice, and that tar would be better? I read ar it was better than tar because containing an index. Was I misslead by wrong web sites?
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