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~tetris

You were not kidding!

I've never seen such a system that mixes-and-matches different package managers over different systems. How the hell does it manage the libraries in the background without duplicating them?

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~dog wrote (thread):

The details of how bedrock works are interesting, although for simplicity's sake it mostly boils down to a pair of FUSE filesystems: etcfs and crossfs.

https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/tree/master/src/etcfs

https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/tree/master/src/crossfs

The two of them together consist of less than 5000 well-commented lines of code total, so likely worth the read.

That said, as I understand it, it does duplicate libraries when it comes to dependencies -- each package manager is entirely unaware of the other package managers running in other stratum.