On 14-08-2006, Erik Wikström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haven't looked at pacman but I seem to recall that it's a utility for > managing pkgsrc packages and as such it (probably) used the pkgsrc > infrastructure to perform it's magic. Thus it ought to work seamlessly > with the pkgsrc tools. At least as long as nothing breaks in the middle > of operation.
You may think about a different 'man'agement tool. Here's an excerpt from the wiki: Pacman was ported from Archlinux. The system is similar to ports/pkgsrc but uses build description files written in bash, called PKGBUILD, instead of Makefiles. I guess pkgsrc could coexist with another third-party software management tool, as long as both don't share anything on the filesystem. pkgsrc keeps all its files under /usr/pkg by default; if pacman is able to do so under another hierarchy, chances are it could work. Still to define how pacman would be better, or what pkgsrc lacks wrt pacman ? IMO, improving pkgsrc support for DragonFly is much more useful: sharing with numerous platforms (not Linux-centric), clean framework, etc. Francis
