[sbopkg-users] Installed packages and queue files

[Mauro Giachero]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Pierre Cazenave <pwcazenave at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I realise that this is likely to increase the time taken to process queue
> files which is why in some ways having this as a command-line only option
> might be easier. That way, the default behaviour within the dialog-based
> interface remains unchanged, but the possibility exists to omit those files
> when called as sbopkg -i.
>
> I'll see if I can hack a patch together to incorporate this functionality,
> though it's likely to take me a while to get my head around the code as it
> stands.
>
> Please don't think I'm criticising sbopkg - I use it almost every day and
> it's made my life significantly easier!


I never did, and I appreciate your feedback. Sorry if I sounded harsh.


> Thanks to you all,


You're welcome.


> Pierre
>
> P.S. Has any consideration been given to "outsourcing" some of the slower
> tasks (like checking for updates) to separate python scripts, then calling
> those as functions from sbopkg? I imagine that python would do the string
> comparison very quickly indeed...


There has been some resistance to using a different language (and, IIRC,
Python has been mentioned before). The rationale usually was:
- we'd have to learn another language (I don't know Python yet)
- Python is not part of a minimal Slackware install (that is, you can set up
a Slackware install without Python, but Bash is always assumed to be
available).

I personally would love to learn Python (it's in my TODO pile), but looks
like there are people appreciating that sbopkg has very minimal software
requirements, so I don't think this is going to happen.

[Now I'm going to seek for food, or I'll have to dinner with rosemary (it's
7.20pm here). I'll reply to any follow-up later :-)]

-- 
Mauro Giachero
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