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[jk] a package manager of package managers is coming to rule them all )
by a-nikolaev 11y ago
[jk] a package manager of package managers is coming to rule them all )
- noobermin 11y agoWill the package manager manage itself?
- andkenneth 11y agoDon't most package managers do that themselves anyway? Like npm and pip seem to. Or are they doing something different behind the scenes.
- cyphar 11y agoZypper, apt, dpkg, pacman, etc. all manage themselves.
- a-nikolaev 11y agobootstrapping package manager, yes )
- archgoon 11y agoIt will manage all the package managers that do not manage themselves.
- agumonkey 11y agopackage calculus
- simondedalus 11y agoit should be called russell's package manager.
- saulrh 11y agoGiven how many non-obvious but easily-solvable problems there are with package management... this might actually not be a terrible idea. The biggest issue would be making it sufficiently flexible to integrate with anything that wants packages, including things like video game modding platforms and programming languages with in-language namespacing/module/package features.
- benlaud 11y agoTheoretically, apt-get/rpm can be a package manager of package manager. (e.g use them to install npm/qpm)
- dvirsky 11y agothat's certainly how I install pip on a new machine
- dvirsky 11y agoAn Uber for package managers
- dagw 11y agoYou mean like this?: http://xkcd.com/1654/ http://xkcd.com/1654/
- helb 11y agoAnd this. https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/