(12-12-2018, 06:38 AM)z3bra Wrote: So is this idea dead already?

Its been a long time, and i took it to think about how it could be implemented.

What about a package manager with no repositories and packages, giving it a type of scheme as the one of Uber (The largest taxi company without owning any car). It will not have packages because all of them will be hosted on their respective github/gitlab repositories.

Lets say i want to download a packages, ill just need to run "palo install venam/2bwm". Then the package manager will search for the repository in github/gitlab and clone it. After that it will search for any Makefile file in the repository and run it.

I know the idea its no so concrete, but atleast it will avoid the necessity of adding packages to a repository and make compete with other package managers that don't have a certain amountof packages.

What do you guys think?

Notes:
-(palo is just a name that i came up for the package manager, new ideas a accepted)
-(Instead of using a Makefile, we could create a global makepkg or makefile exclusively for the package manager)