On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > I'm still working on it, if I could only find a little more time. My
> > current plan is to write a little utility to manipulate the package
> > database directly, entry-by-entry (half way done with that), and then
> > to write the main program (which would wrap the package tools, or the
> > utility, as appropriate) in "awk".
>
> It would be cool to talk about design of operation of such a utility
> before you dive into implementing it. Feel free to post a proposal.

It's all here:

   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2001/05/31/0004.html

Frederick