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Would it be possible to have a general package manager (like apt) as reusable base for the individual language specific package managers? I know that npm and pi
by elcapitan 9y ago
Would it be possible to have a general package manager (like apt) as reusable base for the individual language specific package managers? I know that npm and pip and gem etc all do some additional stuff, but at the core they all do the same (pull packages from repo, do some postinstall, resolve dependencies, maybe in some cases even check if the package is legit). So we could implement and check that once and then just reuse it like we do with many other libraries for image processing etc.
- eeZah7Ux 9y ago+1 to this. There's no need to reinvent the wheel a million times. At least having a shared standard on how to do packaging.
- zokier 9y agoSee also: PackageKit.
- takluyver 9y agoThe packaging technology is not the issue here, it's about the repository. If you made an apt repo where anyone could claim an unused name and start uploading packages, you'd have exactly the same issue.