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Why have yet another Debian package repository tool?
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* Most or all of the other tools require extensive non-core support.
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  While many users may not find this problematic, those working on a new
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  port, and trying to make it self-hosting, will often have a difficult
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  time trying to get some of the more packages with a complex tree of
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  Build-Dependancies (such as Python) to a point where they can be
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  compiled. Conversely, a working shell, an installation of Perl, and
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  a compiler are some of the first things that must be present, simply
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  because so much of the rest of the system depends on these (and they are
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  often available from another port or a non-Debian system).
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  Therefore, I have attempted to keep the requirements for packages not
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  found in the Debian core system (Essential packages, or those with
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  Priority required) to an absolute minimum (ideally, 'none'), or at the
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  very least, only require packages that can easily be compiled on a system
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  with little more than a shell, perl, and a working C compiler.
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  Note that some amount of significant functionality (such as Release
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  files and signature checking) does depend on more complex packages (such
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  as GnuPG or the perl Digest modules), which is why these are in the
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  Recommends field; however, these functions that use these are niceties
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  (if very useful ones), and an archive can operate without them, if
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  necessary.
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* No other tool handles the new pool-style layout readily.
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  As of this writing, none of the tools in Debian except for katie (part
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  of the softare used to run the primary Debian archives) can handle a
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  pool-style directory layout in any straightforward fashion, while setting
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  up a full instance of katie requires significant support infrastructure
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  (such as an SQL server, among other things).