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CPAN exists since 1993, online since 1995. CPAN has the package manager, which is able to install perl software with their dependencies. It's not a new, unknown
by drran 6y ago
CPAN exists since 1993, online since 1995. CPAN has the package manager, which is able to install perl software with their dependencies. It's not a new, unknown technology.
If you are sure that you can create functional, stable, bug free, hole free, up to date, full of useful software distro with 10 independent package managers instead of one, then just do it. We will enjoy it. You will spend about 10x more time than current maintainers, but your time is free, so it's not a problem. Of course, we will say huge THANK YOU for your incredible effort, with nine zeroes after initial zero, except for some hatters, which will blame your perfect distro at HN for no reason.
- lmm 6y agoDebian in particular put a fair bit of effort into integrating apt deeply with CPAN so that you could install a package from there that depended on system libraries and vice versa, and then for subsequent languages they... didn't. You'd think these were well-known technologies, but as far as linux distribution maintaners are concerned they're new and scary. > If you are sure that you can create functional, stable, bug free, hole free, up to date, full of useful software distro with 10 independent package managers instead of one, then just do it. I'd rather leave the distribution model behind entirely. And you know what? I do, and it works great. You just get the occasional complaint like this article, but it doesn't actually matter in the real world.