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 <xenoterrac...@gmail.com> wrote: > you are forgetting how quickly and ginormassly huge the git repo's would > get. > > -- > Caleb Cushing > > http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com >
