alt Hacker NewsConsidering Arch is one of the big upstream distros and, alongside Debian and NixOS, one of the big community-run ones, standardizing and improving its foundations is certainly not a waste. Moreover some results are usable beyond Arch, e.g. VOA (for storage and retrieval of signature verifiers). Choosing Rust though does impose some portability limitations. (Even if makes sense to not want to use C in 2020s.)
This is not improving anything. Overly complex and starting from scratch. They should have picked dome existing package manager instead and contributed to it. Yet another package manager is not justifiable anymore. Always starting new package manager from scratch is the bane of oss it seems.
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