Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 16:22:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul W Brannan <brannanp AT musc DOT edu>
To: Filipe Custsdio <fmc AT novabase DOT pt>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
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> > The shared libraries problem is a rather trivial relational data base
> > problem.
> 
> I liked the DB approach. However, I see no point in using dBase or any
> other complex DBMS for this simple problem;
> 
> Your libs.dat could be a text file with the following entries:

I agree,  It should be a text file that is easy to read.  A relational db
would make uninstalls and installs faster, but if something goes wrong the
user probably won't be able to fix it.  With a text files if you
accidentally uninstall something yourself and the program refuses for some
reason to remove the entry, then you can go into the text file and edit it
yourself.

Paul