Neat package manager...

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:06:51PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:

>I just stumbled across this package manager named ENCAP. The URL is at the
>end of this text.

>Basically it arranges packages in a manner different than I've seen before.
>Each package resides in its' own directory. All packages are at the end of
>/usr/local/encap/ and all required package resources are made available via
>links. What you end up with is a bunch of links in say, /bin, /sbin, /lib,
>etc.

>An interesting idea, worth looking into. Frankly, I like it better than
>sprinkling bins,libs and mans all over the directory tree...

Have you looked at OpenPKG?
	http://www.openpkg.org/

Bill
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