“With thousands of packages to maintain, most important part of any distribution is indeed its package management system. PiSi is the package manager of Pardus, written from scratch in Python. By writing another package manager, our purpose was not to reinvent the wheel but to create a new kind of wheel that takes distinctive ideas from existing ones with also easy integration and maintanence in mind.”
Their package looks quite impressive, although the number of packages may be restrictive.
I’ve been looking for a good source based (or rather source enabled) distro for a while, might give this one a try…
So the articel mentions RPM, DPKG and Portage. What about Conary?
So basically it is like simplified Gentoo without many of its features. Right?
If being used by trolls is a feature of Gentoo, than yes, Pardus is missing that (for now).
Nope.
Pardus has become another promising GNU/Linux desktop distribution that fortunatly gets a lot of attention lately. Very good.
What i like about Pardus is the fact that they actually try to improve a lot of things, make stuff easier or improve usability, and not just present another combination of well known tools. Besides the package manager discussed here they work on the init system (Murdur), an application ability hub (Comar), an easy installer (Yali) and finally a much more straight-forward KDE control center.
I tested it a while ago (1.0 times) and i guess it got much better. It can’t compete eye-to-eye with more established distributions yet, but if they keep up the good work, i don’t doubt that Pardus will carve its place.
Is it necessary to be online to install applications? In other words, can I just copy a package onto my USB flash key and install it on my friend’s computer that doesn’t have connecivity with the Internet? Doesn’t include dependencies? Or do I have to carry all dependencies on my USB flash drive as well?
Sure, just double click on the package and package manager will install it for you.
If a package has a dependency, then you need to carry it with the USB stick and install accordingly. Package manager will definitely warn you if there’s an unmet dependency.
This sounds good. Is there a way to tell Pardus “Hey, I want to grab a package with all its dependencies”?
on command line why don’t you try “pisi it <package-name>”
OTOH user-space GUI installation tool automatically handles dependencies
edit: added OTOH sentence.
Edited 2007-01-16 14:20
you can use “pisi info package_name” on command prompt. it will show the dependencies.