On Tuesday 27 June 2006 16:40, djgoku wrote:
On 6/26/06, Rich Edelman rcedelman@comcast.net wrote:
If you were to start a new linux distribution, what would you use for package management? rpm? dpkg? none (tar.bz2s)? portage? roll your own?
I really like how *BSDs do things with packages/ports, that is where portage got its roots from, packages are precompiled stuff, and ports is you compile from source. Most of the time I never use more than 2-3 ports and rest is packages. All dependencies are dealt with (pkg_add) for more info see [1].
One goal of Utopios's new package manager is to more or less always build from source, but if it's already been done, use those binaries. Think Portage, but if someone has compatible CHOST/CFLAGS and the same USE flags, it will use their binaries or distcc if they're not done yet. Plus a bit of security measures, of course.