GoboLinux - un Linux sin estructura de UNIX

GoboLinux es una distro que rehace por completo la estructura del árbol de directorios de Linux, siguiendo un estilo más parecido a Mac OS X que a UNIX.



Este artículo describe las ideas sobre la gestión de "paquetes" (funciona directamente con los .tar.gz) de GoboLinux



GoboLinux - the alternative Linux distribution

The ideas behind Compile

Hisham Muhammad, December 7th, 2003.

Note: I had a very nice talk with Nathan last night on IRC, and I figured some things I said about the philosophy of Compile could be interesting for others to read too, so I saved the log. However, since we all know IRC logs are a pain to read, I'll try to do an adaptation here, so here we go:

More than once I referred jokingly to Compile as "the poor-man's portage". Not because it is not as feature-rich (though that is indeed true), but because it is much more minimalistic by design.

In the Linux world we live today, we are surrounded by tons of distribution formats for the same programs: .tgz's, .deb's, .rpm's... and even variants of the same format (SuSE rpm's, RedHat rpm's, Mandrake rpm's...). A program may have all of these formats available, but, especially for less fundamental programs, there is usually just a subset, leading the user to the one distribution format that is guaranteed to exist: the original .tar.gz file containing the sources.