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Comment by drbig

> The ALPM project arose from the need for more clearly specifying the interfaces, as well as providing bindings and tools in a memory-safe programming language.

Whose need?

As an admin and a user I kindly ask: why? what for?

`pacman` which has been and is working fine for over two decades on multiple architectures is two packages - and that includes mirror finder.

This project seems like a CS exercise: funded by a grant, designed by committee, producing a lot of complex artifacts (already over a dozen packages)... and it's unclear if the lot of that can even install a single package.

parent drbig 9 months ago

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