xfce Package Manager

[Tim Tassonis]

On October 23, 2014 2:17:36 AM Ángel González <angel at xfce.16bits.net> wrote:

> Tim Tassonis wrote:
> >
> > On October 19, 2014 4:09:18 PM Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:
> >
> > > Tim Tassonis wrote:
> > >
> > > >> I'm not sure what the world needs most is yet another package manager,
> > > >> but if you want some ideas you can take a look at the Smart project ?
> > > >
> > > > You're probably dead right, but I'm writing one anyway, for educational
> > > purposes and because I'm about to create my own distro. Now, that's
> > > definitely what the world has been waiting for, I know...
> > >
> > > Right, it seems that for some reason every distribution needs another
> > > package manager. Or for that matter, another software packaging effort.
>
> And writing another packaging actually means forking a new distro.

Yes, that's very obviously also true.

>
>
> > Well, it seems to me that a lot of distributions are either based on
> > dpkg/apt or rpm/yum. The way I see it, apt and yum are basically frontends
> > to dpkg and rpm that allow you to resolve dependencies and download
> > packages from repositories. I really would like to have another approach to
> > that: I have one program for managing the local package inventory that has
> > the ability to use a loadable package catalogue that will provide functions
> > to search for packages, to refresh the catalogue and to get the ones
> > needed. The catalogues are pluggable. That really allows me to have one
> > interface for everything instead of two, as in dpkg/apt. I hate the
> > switching of interfaces in apt/dpkg depending on what I want to do, and
> > rpm/yum is just the same.
>
> Not all package managers are split like that. And in fact you could hide
> that duality of binaries behind a simple shell script.
>
Yes, I could, but why should I? Putting another layer on apt, which is a 
layer on top of dpkg does not sound all that great to me.
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