<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Pierre Cazenave <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pwcazenave@gmail.com">pwcazenave@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Please don't think I'm criticising sbopkg - I use it almost every day and it's made my life significantly easier!</blockquote><div><br>I never did, and I appreciate your feedback. Sorry if I sounded harsh.<br>
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Thanks to you all,</blockquote><div><br>You're welcome.<br>�<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font color="#888888">
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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...</blockquote>
</div><br>There has been some resistance to using a different language (and, IIRC, Python has been mentioned before). The rationale usually was:<br>- we'd have to learn another language (I don't know Python yet)<br>
- 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).<br clear="all"><br>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.<br>
<br>[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 :-)]<br><br>-- <br>Mauro Giachero<br>