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@ -20,3 +20,16 @@ While the code in this crate is available under a permissive MIT license,
`libapt-pkg-dev` must be installed. The [`gcc`](https://crates.io/crates/gcc)
crate is used to try and find a native compiler.
### Thread safety
It is intended that the crate should be usable from multiple threads.
However, this is generally implemented using singletons, which may be really
annoying for your use-case.
`apt` does not have a concurrency model: you may not use threads.
Since `apt` 1.4 or 1.5 (in Debian Stretch (2017), but not in Xenial 16.04),
some operations are thread safe: it should be possible to initialise the cache
twice in parallel. As these versions of `apt` are not widespread, the API of
this crate does not attempt to expose this.