Re: linux registry (no, not that again!)

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Jul 28, 2004, Jonathan Andrews <jon jonshouse co uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:56, Neal D. Becker wrote:

>> One motivation that I didn't hear anyone mention:

>> It is difficult to add entries/edit a flat file.

> ^^^Bingo !!! Somebody else hits the nail on the head 

> Hence the need for "A COMMON API FOR MANIPULATING TEXT IN FLAT FILES"

Err...  How does this help solve the problem of an rpm package owning
only part of such a flat text file?

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