Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> writes: >> How is the ReactOs package manager different from package managers on >> unix-like systems? > If I recall well, at the time they didn't host the software that was > available in their package manager at all. > > Their "package manager" was merely a tool to download software from > various URLs and execute their installers. However the interface was > quite similar to existing graphical package manager frontends. > > The technical advantage of implementing in this way is that it requires > way less work.
Oh! So it was similar to what Guix is? Guix also downloads the software from various non-Guix URLs, if the package you want to install does not have a compiled version. And if has a compiled version hosted in Guix servers, there are so many factors in the compilation that it is impossible to audit for freedom in a rigorous way for every package.
