Writing a Package Manager

Re:Writing a Package Manager by celiktom on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:54AM (#37220954)

Writing a package manager is not one of the most common programming tasks. After all, there are many out-of-the-box ones available.

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Re:Writing a Package Manager by 3np on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:48PM (#37231316)

These copy-pasted one-liners aren't useful. Skip them.

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Re:Writing a Package Manager by 000ooo000 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:01AM (#37231711)

Imagine what'd we be using for package management today if package manager >= #2 author said "you know what, one already exists".

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Re:Writing a Package Manager by jsunderland323 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @01:24AM (#37232174)

This is the package manager paradox. The problem is multiple package managers but to address it we build more package managers.

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Re:Writing a Package Manager by queuebert on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:44AM (#37237805)

I think we'd all be using 'tar'.

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