Adept and apt-rpm

[Matthew Flaschen]

Kelly wrote:
> apt is just the command-line tool.  Unless there is a library (I don't 
> remember if there is for yum or not), you have to know how to parse the 
> tool's repository format (yum's is rather easy, 'cause it's standardized as 
> part of LSB IIRC)...

Really, it's misguided to imply Debian repositories are undocumented or 
proprietary just because LSB chose RPM.  Anyway, there is a libapt 
library on Debian; I'm not sure if apt-rpm ported that or bypassed it 
completely.

> Unless, of course, you fork the installer process, which I guess you could do, 
> though the problem is you will likely lose the really detailed error 
> messages.

Which I don't think Synaptic or Adept provide anyway, even on Debian.

Matt Flaschen