Hi there,

Not knowing anything about the development of LFS (and in the hopes of
not having to) I would like to suggest two (faily big) package
management systems to be mentioned on the FAQ:

- pacman from Arch Linux

  It does dependency tracking, supports (optionally remote) package
  repositories, file collisions, package conflicts, etc. It's also used
  by a couple of other distributions as well, such as Frugalware.

- dpkg from Debian

  Well, somebody else will probably do a better job explaining it, but
  I think it should be mentioned. Unlike RPM, this one actually builds
  on distributions other than the one supplied by the vendor... (Recent
  versions of RPM fails to locate rpm.h.) It's also much lighter on
  dependencies.

On a side note: Another headline for "Why isn't some package manager in
the book?" would be appreciated. I failed to look there before going to
lfs-support because I knew the answer to that question. "Is it possible
to use a package manager with LFS?" or something in those lines really
fits the answer better.

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