distri
Infrastructure
linux distribution
SHOW HN2019
92points
66comments
#528of 2,195 in 2019
Top 25%of 2019 by points
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4 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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Similar design to Haiku's packagefs package management
From 2 comments
This is very interesting as this is almost identical to how the Haiku Operating System does package management using their own packaging format (hpkg) which uses packagefs. [0]…
return_0e on HNSo ... this is more or less exactly how Haiku's package management system works. (It was designed in ~2008-2009, merged into the nightlies in 2013, and of course has been used by…
waddlesplash on HN
Interesting approach to separating packages
From 2 comments
That's super interesting! I've been pondering better package management tools for a while as the current landscape seems stagnated. I hope some ideas from distri will make their…
Boulth on HNThis is very nice and it comes as rather surprising to me that it doesn't exist yet in a "serious" Linux distribution. While reading about the file system structure I was…
solarkraft on HN
Objections
Packages need recompiling to work under /ro prefix
From 1 comment
A package-specific /ro prefix is annoying and will not persuade many. void linux uses standard paths, and still has a blazingly package manager, without the need for images being…
rurban on HN
No triggers means post-install work is shifted to runtime
From 1 comment
You might find this a problematic approach: - You make packages track more state―“stuff has changed”―and if there are no triggers, you can't even set a flag for the package's…
aasasd on HN
Not suitable for all environments
From 1 comment
Certainly distri isn’t suitable for all environments, but I think the general concept can be very resource-efficient. A few thoughts inline: > Sometimes you want a single…
secure on HN
Requests
Ideas adopted by mainstream distributions
From 1 comment
That's super interesting! I've been pondering better package management tools for a while as the current landscape seems stagnated. I hope some ideas from distri will make their…
Boulth on HN
Questions
How font cache and post-install triggers are handled
From 2 comments
I'm curious about the no-triggers claim. There's stuff that happens after installing packages sometimes, which you can't put into an image. For example refreshing the font cache.…
viraptor on HNBut in this case they're building an OS from existing components and not redesigning GUI libraries. The current reality is that you run fc-cache to update the cache. Hooks in…
viraptor on HN
Performance compared with other package managers
From 2 comments
So is there any performance hit or gain when using SquashFS? I wonder why all the container folks aren’t using this.
drudru11 on HNA package-specific /ro prefix is annoying and will not persuade many. void linux uses standard paths, and still has a blazingly package manager, without the need for images being…
rurban on HN
Alternatives named
Haiku packagefs
From 2 comments
This is very interesting as this is almost identical to how the Haiku Operating System does package management using their own packaging format (hpkg) which uses packagefs. [0]…
return_0e on HNSo ... this is more or less exactly how Haiku's package management system works. (It was designed in ~2008-2009, merged into the nightlies in 2013, and of course has been used by…
waddlesplash on HN
Nix
From 1 comment
There’s been some related work lately, too. - Nix packages are still archives, but they do have separate roots, and use runpath to hardcode shared library paths into the Nix…
jchw on HN
GoboLinux
From 1 comment
This is very nice and it comes as rather surprising to me that it doesn't exist yet in a "serious" Linux distribution. While reading about the file system structure I was…
solarkraft on HN
Void Linux XBPS
From 1 comment
A package-specific /ro prefix is annoying and will not persuade many. void linux uses standard paths, and still has a blazingly package manager, without the need for images being…
rurban on HN