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Any interesting approaches to package management (Linux or not)? besides Portage and Nix. (lemmy.ml)

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Gentoo's Portage and NixOS' Nix are both interesting takes on package management. Both are powerful and open up a ton of flexbility to the user, but still do a lot of work for you.

Are there any other similarly interesting approaches to the package management problem?

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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I haven't personally used these, but after some searching I found a few relatively new and experimental twists to the formula:

distri uses SquashFS images for all their packages and claims to be very fast:
spack is also a Nix-inspired package system that's python-based, and it seems to allow for a lot of customization, you can even modify the dependencies / build parameters of a package when installing it.
flox is compatible with Nixpkgs, it seems to be an iteration on the idea with some improvements.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

I wish there had been more movement on distri; it was quite promising, but it shows all signs of being dead.