On Jul 28, 2004, Jonathan Andrews <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
