[Arm-netbook] GK802 for $70

[Philip Hands]

"luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> writes:
...
>   at this point i think it would be sensible to move this discussion
> to an appropriate debian mailing list, because they will know the
> details as to why dpkg is the way that it is.

Please don't -- judging from the discussion so far I seriously doubt
anyone will be made happier by doing that.

As for levels of complexity, you missed another explosion of
combinations that dpkg now handles: multiarch now lets you install
packages from other architectures, and have packages depend/conflict
on/with packages from other architectures.

opkg is all very well, and handles what's needed on openwrt very well,
but that's because it's possible to download the pakcages list in a
couple of seconds, and because people upgrade by reflashing the bulk of
the OS and then only use opkg to twiddle a few packages on top of that.

If you're doing full system upgrades, with local file diversions, and
handling conflicts between conffile edits by the packager vs. edits by
the local sysadmin, then you're going to need just a little more code.

Cheers, Phil.
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