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

a bit outdated, perhaps partial, :) https://sourcemage.org/History

As I said, way cool the codex, the grimoire, the spells, the casting, the dispelling, scribe, resurrect, summon, and so on. And as well as with other source based distros, with the advantages on x86 to really get binaries for the CPU in the HW... I moved to Arch when realizing it was not possible for me to keep up with all the building, and I was strict about rebuilding the whole system when there were gcc upgrades for example (but it was cool as well to experience how simple it was with sourcemage to rebuild everything, keeping in mind dependencies and all that), and then to Artix when, ohh well, doesn't matter any more... Next, probably Guix, but one can easily get to miss the AUR, and easy of creating a self custom repo. With sourcemage and arch/artix creating our own custom packages, and our own custom repos is really easy and fast, which is hard to compete against, and then one can really get addict to the AUR, :)