#2111: Adding PACO to LFS
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Reporter: spinal84 | Owner: [email protected]
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0
Component: Book | Version: 7.0
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by spinal84):
Replying to [comment:3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I'm really not sure that LFS needs to do anything more regarding package
management. We already point out various alternative package management
schemes.
Almost everybody using LFS needs good package management tool. All these
techniques from the book are very hard to understand to newbies in linux
and LFS. Taking in account my experience in LFS the first time I installed
all LFS packages using instructions from the book. Then I installed some
packages from BLFS. Then I found the tool called PACO, I installed it and
saw it's good and what I needed for long time ago. Of course in some time
I had to reinstall all my LFS+BLFS system just to use paco because my
upgrades scattered the system.[[BR]]
I think everybody like orderliness in their linux systems. I read about
other package management systems in LFS. They all are hard, complicated
and/or inconvenient not only for newbies but experienced users too. They
are just tools to play with (to get some experience) nothing more.
Oppositely paco is fast, convenient and easy way to manage packages. Paco
is written specially for LFS users. Why not include it as native package
management tool?
> I still see LFS as the base of these other requirements. We provide the
instructions required to build a (hopefully) robust yet small Linux
system.
{{{
$ paco -s paco
318k paco-2.0.3
}}}
Paco size in my system is only 318kb (without stripping). I hope it's no
too big for LFS? ;-)
> Other projects, such as blfs, jhalfs, etc. provide additional features
on top of that.
I'm not speaking about including paco as addition feature. I'm speaking
about making paco the one of the heart tools for LFS system just like
linux kernel. It should be native package management tool for LFS. Just
like grub is made native boot loader in opposition to lilo and others.
And if someone won't be satisfied with paco (for example some people
making LFS extremely small) they can easy remove paco from the system:
{{{
# paco -r paco
rm -fr /var/log/paco
}}}
If someone works on embedded system based on LFS he can use paco to
manage/upgrade system and then remove it when going to production. Even
here paco should be integrated in LFS book.
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