17 May
2025
17 May
'25
8:36 a.m.
On 2025-05-17 02:03 AM, Edward Toroshchyn wrote:
pacman is open source, so of course you can change it however you want.
Without knowing more about the problem you're solving it's hard to give a more specific advice.
If you're want a minimalistic OS and/or package manager, have you looked at Alpine?
Actually openwrt's package manager changed from opkg to Alpine's apk [1][2][3], being openwrt meant to work on embedded/minimal systems I believe Alpine's apk most probably is pretty light. -- Javier [1] https://forum.openwrt.org/t/major-change-notice-new-package-manager/215682 [2] https://forum.openwrt.org/t/the-future-is-now-opkg-vs-apk/201164/7 [3] https://docs.alpinelinux.org/user-handbook/0.1a/Working/apk.html