Bug 4929 - Add support for pacman as package_pacman/xy.bbclass
Summary: Add support for pacman as package_pacman/xy.bbclass
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Package Management Issues
Classification: Runtime
Component: package-management-issues (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Multiple
: Low enhancement
Target Milestone: Future
Assignee: Unassigned
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Reported: 2013-07-27 20:01 UTC by Laszlo Papp
Modified: 2018-01-18 16:06 UTC (History)
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Description Laszlo Papp 2013-07-27 20:01:54 UTC 
See the following link for details: https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/
Comment 1 Robert Yang 2013-08-29 01:54:27 UTC 
Hi Laszio,

We've already had 3 package managers, rpm, deb and ipk, can you provide more info on why we need the pacman, please ?
Comment 2 Laszlo Papp 2013-08-29 02:58:25 UTC 
Simply because certain people pacman over those?

It is not about the number of package managers, but choice. Different features, different performance, different reliability etc.

It is like asking why do you like orange when we have apple and banana IMHO.
Comment 3 Christopher Larson 2015-09-25 18:02:42 UTC 
I find this interesting (of course, I'm an Arch fan). Worst case it could go in a separate layer.
Comment 4 Richard Purdie 2018-01-18 16:06:50 UTC 
We'd be willing to consider this but it needs someone to step up and do the work. Nobody has done that, if someone ever is interested, I'd suggest a proposal to the architecture list (and an agreement to understand maintenance of it). As also mentioned, this would could be done in a layer too.