(27-10-2016, 05:19 AM)mrtn Wrote: is something i have mixed feelings about. These things have been implemented time and time agian - why not re-use something existing, fork and adapt?

Because it's it's freaking fuuuuuun!!!!
Note that XBPS is extremely close in design to pacman. It's mostly just pacman splitted into multiple binaries (as I see it).

For runit, I definitely love the design, but have mixed feelings regarding implementation. It clutters the output of process listing commands by spawning at least 3 processes per service. Extremely verbose, so it doesn't help troubleshooting issue, and elevates to a power of 3 the number of crash that could shut your services down.
It is relatively easy to setup regardless, and is pretty modular.

As for musl, it's a good thing they switched to it, but doing that comes with its fair share of "problems", for example, gcc is stuck in version 4 (at least, it doesn't require C++ crap to compile!).

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From my experience, Void linux is a cool distro, that stands out from others (runit + musl), with an OK package manager (too many binaries, if you ask me though, but that's why we got aliases), and a "funny" package building system. I couldn't get around it though, it's way too complex for me to setup, and the abstraction level in package recipes is just too high. Back in the days I've been unable to package my own version of 2bwm (eg, providing my own config.h, or using a custom URL).

I've also found the lead dev to be pretty harsh with newcomers, and not welcoming at all ("You don't like it?! go fucking make it yourself and leave me alone!", that's not the exact terms, but you get the idea)