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Here are features that may be nice to have in future releases of
apt-zip:

* aptitude-update action - make the package list based on the selections
made in aptitude

* other fetch methods (also from other common OS)

** apt
** lftp backend
** traditional ftp client (if at all possible)
** liburi-perl


* use a litprog tool to be able to document wget method without
producing tens of comments in the fetch script.

* auto remove old-debs-*.tar when not needed any more ?

* space checking - partly done

Unfortunately a simple file-size-rounded-media-blocksize sum does not
properly model a VFAT partition, as it seems.  More tests needed to
find an accurate algorithm.


* tar space-saving when space is overflowed.

** auto-add "tar" command at end of script if blocksize-caused
space-overflow detected, and tarfile would fit - maybe add "autotar"
option for this.

** auto-detection of tarball by apt-zip-inst, so that it can take a
relevant action:

 - using removable media as spool dir (no tar - is what we currently do)
 - untar into apt spool dir
 - use userfs on the tarball to still prevent copying the files in local
   spool dir (I don't even know whether this fancy is realistic - never
   looked at userfs seriously)


* multi-zip support

When one zip is not enough, maybe 2 can be good.  This may require
nice optimization algorithm if we want to combine this with tar
support.

-- File last reviewed: 2000/10/21 for 0.12 release
