Re: updateinfo and -S option

> If I remember correctly, the reason it was pulled of was because it
> was ugly code and Gustavo had other ideas about implementing that, but
> never got to it.
>
> Regarding the comment about how many people used it, well, we,
> Conectiva, used it for our official updates, and it got dropped even
> so :)

Just a small correction: it wasn't pulled off. Most of the code
which was available in the old APT-RPM, done by Kojima, was
ported to be included in the new versions (0.5 and up), so
I haven't *removed* any code, I just haven't ported it over.

I haven't ported it because it was a hack. It was accessing
the RPM header lists directly from the frontend, without any
infrastructure support from APT itself. To include the same
mechanism in Synaptic, for example, I'd have to copy the whole
thing and use the same hack.

The right way to do this is to include a new API to transit
meta-information from the backend. And at that point you're
right, I never got to it. My fault.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net