Hi Liam, Yes, that's a nice post. Hisham shared this link with me yesterday, too, but only now I had a chance to read it. I've a few comments.
Interestingly, the author builds packages with prefix=/ro/pkgname-arch-version. We have done that in the past, and while that works mostly fine for most projects, there are several packages that do not behave as expected when built that way (and patching them can be a PITA). The list of packages that needed patching prior to our adoption of /System/Index included PostgreSQL and the printing stack -- the issue is that third-party modules/extensions expect to be installed in the same prefix as the main project, such as PostGIS and CUPS filters. The need to fix search paths is also a side-effect of building packages with disagreeing prefixes. Based on our experience over the years, it's not worth to pursue that path. Most of the problems reported on that page would probably go away if packages were built with --prefix=/ro and if a unionfs-based sandbox were used to move installed files to /ro/pkgname-arch-version. Now, the idea of using self-contained package images is nice (and it reminds me a bit of AppImage, which I really like). Putting this kind of idea together in a distro is always challenging -- kudos to Michael for trying this out. And it looks like Go is the programming language of choice for Distri. Certainly much better than Bash, which we continue to embrace to this day :-) Lucas On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 7:40 AM Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > This will be of interest, I think. If you read the post you'll see why. > https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-distri/ > -- > Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven > UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-devel mailing list > gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel >
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