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This tracker remains open for interaction with historical bugs during the transition period. Any new bugs reports will be closed without further action.
FS#26990 - [pacman] Integrate with other package managers
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Pacman
Opened by darkraven (darkraven) - Friday, 18 November 2011, 06:30 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 22 April 2012, 10:29 GMT
Opened by darkraven (darkraven) - Friday, 18 November 2011, 06:30 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 22 April 2012, 10:29 GMT
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Nowadays many scripting languages have their own package managers, link CPAN, CRAN, NPM and so on. If I think install packages using those PMs, pacman won't be aware of packages installed, and thus can't manager them. It's possible to convert those packages to PKGBUILDs though, with some converter from AUR. But that's quite inconvenient. And installing them locally (not system-wise) is not always a suitable solution. So I think it'll be good to integrate pacman with other package managers. Pacman should be able to read other PMs' database to get lists of installed packages, and invoke appropriate PM when installing packages from outside of pacman's repo. |
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Anyway, now I understand that the solution should be a wrapper for pacman, rather than modifying pacman. That kind of wrapper should be able to sync package information between different PMs.