Mad Penguin: Building A Better Package Manager

[ Thanks to Adam Doxtater for this
link. ]

“While I am one of the biggest proponents of the Linux operating
system in the world today, I will be the first to tell you that it
has some flaws which are keeping it from the holiest of holys: the
desktop. Yeah sure, I have been using it on the desktop for years,
but is it right for everyone? Not really. Even with the recent
leaps and bounds in development effort on the desktop (read KDE
3.2, GNOME 2.4.2, Xfree86 4.3, etc.) there is one area that needs
to be addressed before it can ever be seriously considered. What I
am speaking of is the ability to add and remove programs easily,
and I am here to offer a suggestion and a design.

“Most of the people I know who are running Linux as their chosen
OS don’t really care whether there is a good package manager or
not, as they compile everything from source… myself included most
of the time. Since I use Slackware Linux as my weapon of choice, I
find a happy medium somewhere between source code and TGZ packages
found on LinuxPackages.net. This works wonderfully for for me, but
it’s not for everyone. The story I hear most often from new Linux
users goes something like “wow, this OS is
great! If only it had a way for me to control my software
easily…â€. As much as I hate to say it, they are
absolutely right. Linux is missing a solid package management
interface. I am here to propose one…”

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Story