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My ideal distribution would be somewhat of a meta distribution allowing from source (meaning git, svn) control as well as binary installation. These are a few i
by nwmcsween 15y ago
My ideal distribution would be somewhat of a meta distribution allowing from source (meaning git, svn) control as well as binary installation. These are a few idea's I've had regarding this:
* Parse build systems such as configure.in, Tupfile.. for options and dependencies and use simple machine learning for classification of options
* Use some sort of locality sensitive hashing to sort packages thus easy to categorize without arbitrary naming
* Meta framework allowing for building different package formats such as rpm, deb..etc.
* Quality control as well as PGO and such via rspec (or something as malleable).
Gentoo or Exherbo do all by hand and in shell which becomes time consuming and incredibly brittle. All this could easily be broken down into individual parts.