Package Management

In the previous article in this series, we discussed how it might be possible to produce a unified package management system. Probably, though, I've personally had more trouble from package meta-managers (such as yum, apt, and up2date).

They have lots of features, but not always the ones I want. The answer is increased modularity, configurability, and standardisation.

One of the things which seems to have been reinvented by every version of Unix and every distribution of Linux is the package management system. This post makes suggestions as to the best way of achieving a unified package system.