Re: Package format/management ramblingss

[Marco Gerards]

Barry deFreese <address@hidden> writes:

> Stow is small and reliant on Perl.  If the goal is to write our own,
> why not do it now?

Do you want to do that?  One reason not to do it now is that no one
cares enough about it.

> So the the tarballs now contain the binary "application" and the
> metadata?  So we must re-create every tarball?  If that's the case, I
> like Marco's packagefs idea.  Of course I really like what Jereon was
> saying today on #hurd about the pax format.

It is not my idea, I just mentioned it.

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Marco