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Opened Jan 23, 2020 by Rasmus Thomsen@Cogitri

Make libapk friendlier to use

Hello,

since there's currently quite some talk about apk-tools-3 I thought it might be worth mentioning this too, as libapk currently isn't too nice to use.

There are currently a plugin for GNOME Software and Qt library[1] for usage in KDE Discover in the works, but they have to jump through some hoops to get it to work. As of now apk doesn't even always install a shared library, nor a static library or even its headers, making it hard to work with it (!11 (closed) tries to fix that though). Additionally most of the convenience functions (e.g. apk_repository_update) aren't in libapk but in apk, forcing other frontends using libapk to reimplement these. It'd be nice if these functions were included in libapk instead, so they could be reused.

1: https://gitlab.com/minlexx/libapk-qt

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Reference: alpine/apk-tools#10672