On 6/26/06, Rich Edelman [email protected] wrote:
If you were to start a new linux distribution, what would you use for package management? rpm? dpkg? none (tar.bz2s)? portage? roll your own?
I really like how *BSDs do things with packages/ports, that is where portage got its roots from, packages are precompiled stuff, and ports is you compile from source. Most of the time I never use more than 2-3 ports and rest is packages. All dependencies are dealt with (pkg_add) for more info see [1].
What about managing dependencies and fetching packages from remote repositories? yast? apt? smart? yum? urpmi? portage?
What architectures / hardware would you support? ppc? alpha? x86 / x86_64?
I only have x86, but I think my next upgrade will be to x86_64.
Would you go the way of Ubuntu, and work around Gnome mainly? Or the way SuSE traditionally was, and be mostly KDE oriented?
I prefer fluxbox, though wmii looks really neat.