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The package format is entirely static. A series of plain-text files with fields separated by lines and spaces. Easily parseable via any programming language or with basic UNIX utilities.
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KISS package repositories (GitHub)
The package manager is written in less than 1000 lines of POSIX shell with a large emphasis on portability. The only requirements are a POSIX compliant environment, curl and git.
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The distribution is designed to be maintainable by a single person. There is no infrastructure and the entire distribution is merely a few Git repositories. The distribution's upstream is entirely optional.
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Less software is better than more software. As the amount of running software increases, as does the risk of bugs, security issues and things going awry. A system with less moving parts is also far easier to wholly understand.
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There is no lock-in to specific software. The user has the ability to mix and match any shell, core utilities, init system, device manager and more. The alternatives system enables this down to file level.
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Dylan Araps (C) 2019-2020
Linux(R) is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.