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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams wrote: > How many people here use a non-.deb AND non-.rpm package manager for their > everyday GNU/Linux systems? > > (I'm not interested in ones you used whilst looking over someone's shoulder or > ones you last used ten years ago!) > > I know about Slackware and I've come across ArchLinux recently that uses what > they call Pacman (!). > http://www.archlinux.org/about.php > > I currently build .deb, .rpm, .tar.gz, fink .deb and DarwinPorts packages at > various stages of development. > > What else is out there? > > Does each one have their network of maintainers who package tarballs into > their own package format? > > Who uses a non-86 platform? (apart from MacOSX). Any strange package managers? > > How pure does an autofoo config need to be to run on every GNU system? Is > 'sed' always around? Perl? bash may not be, as long as it's fairly simple > test stuff, shouldn't most shells work? > > Anyone ever built a package for Cygwin? What does that require? > Gentoo's portage system used here... .ebuild files informing the system how to compile a given .tgz file, along with other stuff too..... quite a sexy little package management system... have used .rpm and .deb before... Neil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCz7zrz3Av8JKgzxQRAotEAJ9K3V1QtLLGwXveU37PFB+3T3TaCgCgju82 lyOaB90RbVcvi3IVb7ZXmfw= =zRQH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html