A new distro? evil idea!! By the way: reinvent the wheel may be an interesting progress............................................................................. On 2009-09-17 23:10:10, nekomancer davion wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:10:10 -0400 > From: nekomancer davion <ladislaio@xxxxxxxxx> > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] An evil idea --- use Git to manage the > repositories > Reply-To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <bd5ae8c50909172010q110ceb4aif005c02f8063c413@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > List-Id: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general.archlinux.org> > > Forsight linux does something like this, but their server side was > closed source the last time I took a look(back in February). > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conary_(package_manager) > > It is a very interesting idea, and could speed things up a lot. It > would make downloading packages to install elsewhere a pain in some > cases though. Using GIT as-is would be a bad idea(perhaps hack > mercurial to do the work instead?). > > It would be rather non-KISS, but it does not sound too hard so long as > you do not allow for rollbacks(Just store a list of what files are > different and thus would need to be updated). > > goodmenz if you want to try to hack something together, I should have > time to assist, although not much(still in school, busy semester). > Anyone else interested? > > Forking mercurial and pacman into MerMan would be the new Linux > package management system which finally bring about the year of the > Linux desktop! > > ~Nekody > 林克迪 > > On 9/9/09, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > you are forgetting how quickly and ginormassly huge the git repo's would > > get. > > > > -- > > Caleb Cushing > > > > http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com > >
