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Rant #4 - Void Linux

Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net>

Date: 05 Sep, 2021

I think once or twice I tried to bootstrap that distro using a chroot tarball on my current host.

So far the distro's repositories themselves are terribly broken in so many ways.

For example, Profanity , a TUI client for XMPP somehow depends on GTK+3 for no stupid reason (a text-based program pulling on a graphical toolkit? what the hell?)

X.Org pulls on like three hundred dependencies most of them are unneeded (e.g. Wayland, which is itself a really different thing.)

I doubt the maintainers of the official repository are doing this intentionally or not, because it's really that bad.

If I could, I would just hard-fork it and try to fix that mess. xbps is good and all but the default repos seriously are broken.

Not even 'pacman' , which is Arch's package manager could fuck things up like this...

It also has its own issues, but .....