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Haiku Package Management (markround.com)
5 points by smallstepforman on Feb 17, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Explore an alternative read-only package management transaction system for Haiku, which support instant rollbacks. Can Linux package managers learn from Haiku’s experience?


Author here - thanks for posting! There's also a really interesting discussion thread about this on lobste.rs where a Haiku developer gives some of the interesting background (and drama!) behind the development of their package management system and other innovations: https://lobste.rs/s/j9decl/haiku_package_management#c_owqi3t




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