Re: reading from file bottom up

Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> The whole purpose of this is for package management.
> When my system selects packages, as it finds needed packages it echos them
> into a file.

I don't want to discourage you from doing what you want but why invent
yet another package manager?

> But if package A needs package B but A is not installed, it will be echoed
> into a file, then package B after it.
>
> Then when the installer runs, it will install A first, then B, but A will fail
> because it needs B installed first...

This sounds like a 'stack'. You might google for stack programming
concepts to get some ideas.

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.

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