[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Module dependencies

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Quoting Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>:

>
>
> The main point of what I meant with "handle the complexities of the
> interaction between the two module distribution mechanisms" is that
> the Gnomesword and Bibletime programs that we distribute should still
> function properly (in particular allowing users to download further
> modules) if there are some content modules present which been
> installed from .deb packages.
>
> Is this functionality already implemented?

The applications don't know how the modules have been installed, they  
just see them through the Sword API. After the modules have been  
installed with a package manager or a Sword installer they are just  
ordinary files to the Sword. If a Sword app is run as root it can  
uninstall the files in any case (which may leave the package  
management system in a broken state).

--Eeli Kaikkonen