On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:40 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > The core of a distribution is the "packaging" system, and the core of > the packaging system is the building system, which has no reason not > to be distribution agnostic, and actually, packaging system agnostic. > > Why not create a new build system with a state of the art programming > language, and an advanced DSL that actually other distributions could > use? > > I would like to hear your opinions on this matter.
Take a look at Nix. It's a distribution-agnostic package manager that uses a purely functional DSL for package specifications. http://nix.cs.uu.nl/index.html -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
