(09-01-2025, 10:12 PM)jkl Wrote: freem: Sounds like you want to make Debian Void.

Well, no, because void's integration of runit was bad when I tried it, and their package system is not good neither. Dpkg have features such as the "recommends" for example, which are very handy. It's database (in /var/lib/dpkg) is in a format readable by both humans and machines, unlike void's xml thing. Tooling is also more developed, I notably like aptitude's ncurses interface a lot, because no, I can not manage 150000 packages with just CLI tools. Or rather, I can, but it takes 10 times more efforts, so it sucks.
Note that if void's database was in a sane format, I would have tinkered a TUI script with dialog or perhaps even in C++ directly to handle this lack, but XML... no, thanks. Really no.
Oh, and, ofc, I do not exactly enjoy rolling release.

The only good thing about voidlinux is really that it have a muslC build, in the end. I would be more likely to move toward alpine linux, in that regard, seems much simpler (from a technical point of view).