Debtags Library

Benjamin Mesing bensmail@gmx.net
Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:41:39 +0200


Sorry for the double post, I accidently pressed Crtl+Enter

Hello,

I've realized that a version of the debtags library is available for
debian unstable. After downloading I've played around a little. I have
noticed that some of the things I wished were allready available which
made me happy :-)
Here are two things I wanted to mention:
      * As the DebtagsEnvironment::outputSystem() uses the
        UnfacetedRemover I can't use it because I rely on the packages
        to be tagged with the facets. Besides there are still a lot of
        packages tagged simply with a facet. Might it be possible to add
        an argument or another function to allow the same functionality
        without using the UnfacetedRemover? I really would like to use
        this function as it would remove the burden of offering my own
        readCollection() functions.
      * I really like the getState() function in PackageDB it frees me
        of looking where to get this information! Perhaps the return
        could be casted to an enum which descripes what each state means
        (i.e. enum State { INSTALLED, NOT_INSTALLED,
        RESIDENT_CONFIGURATION... }

Great work you have done so far. It is nice to see an easy interface
building up.

Btw. is there any way to do an anonymous checkout of the libdebtags? I d
not know subversion at all.

Greetings Ben