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What’s annoying about the prefix? Thanks for mentioning void linux. I gave it a shot in Docker just now, but it seems rather traditional in that it does depend
by secure 7y ago
What’s annoying about the prefix?
Thanks for mentioning void linux. I gave it a shot in Docker just now, but it seems rather traditional in that it does dependency resolution, does not allow for co-installability, uses transactions, unpacks archives, and runs hooks/triggers.
- CameronNemo 7y agoI think his point was that xbps is fast enough for normal operation, while still offering a traditional package management workflow. Alpine's APK is even faster according to one of the XBPS developers and another void maintainer that uses Alpine at work. (paragraph 2) https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/ccppu0/opkg_vs_apk_vs_xbps/etqq3tv/ https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/ccppu0/opkg_vs_a...
- hawski 7y agoI tried Alpine once and it was amazing how fast it was. Many package installations were almost instantaneous. I remember checking after installation if the package was installed, because I didn't believe it, that fast it was. I would like to hijack this thread and ask: how does Alpine's package build system works? I use Void's, because package builds are thinly isolated thanks to user namespaces. This makes sure, that the configure scripts are only detecting what you want. Also, what is important for me, you can mostly do everything without root privileges. I use it to generate images of my own Linux distribution and easy hacking around it is also a big plus for me.
- CameronNemo 7y agoBy the way, all of the common void xbps triggers are found here: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/xbps-triggers/files https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcp... These are one of the largest time sinks for the package manager.