[sbopkg-users] Feature proposal

[alkos333]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM, slakmagik <jsunx1 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 2009-04-16 (Thu) 14:35:35 [-0500], alkos333 wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com> wrote:
>> > * alkos333 <me at alkos333.net> [2009-04-16 05:52:43]:
>> >
>> That would certainly be nice.  What if I provide a successful,
>> implementation of my idea, would you take a closer look at it?
>>
>
> Although I've liked several of your suggestions before and appreciate
> them all, I'm personally against this idea in principle, aside from
> implementation. IMO, sbopkg provides the principle of the queue, the
> ability to edit your queues, and the ability to handle lists of queues.
> Anything else along these lines really is dependency handling (even if
> "soft") and is up to the user. In this regard, sbopkg is just another
> tool and you can lash it together with other tools to make the
> special-purpose tool you want or write a separate tool alongside it. But
> it, itself, shouldn't go this far into parsing unstructured text for
> dependency information in order to (non-robustly and, by design,
> sometimes incompletely) auto-order queues. But that's just me.
>
>> You guys mind if it's in python or would you rather have everything
>> written in bash?
>
> I'd very much rather have everything in bash. If this is in python the
> next guy should be able to add stuff in ruby and the next in foo and the
> next in bar and that makes for an auditing and maintenance nightmare.
> Also, while we assume a standard Slackware install and figure you have
> the basic shell, coreutils, dialog and a few other things (and this
> would include python), I don't want people to be forced to dispense with
> sbopkg (or parts of it) if they want to uninstall stuff like python or
> ruby or whatever. Again, just my opinion.
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Point well taken.

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