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2026-04-30 07:49 UTC

@jcm @vwbusguy@mastodon.online @bookwar@floss.social traditional distros use package managers to assemble their distro. GNOME OS have no package manager, since it's built fully by Buildstream (i.e. everything in one go). KDE Linux is based on Arch, but they also don't provide a package manager, with all the packages they care about being provided by them.

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@jcm@wafrn.jcm.re 2026-04-30 07:53

@vwbusguy@mastodon.online @bookwar@floss.social @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud I disagree with this definition tbh. A distribution is anything that distributes different pieces of upstream software without being controlled by upstream. You can break upstream software even if no package manager is involved. Think about it from upstream's point of view: If someone packages my software, why would I care if it is distributed to people with a package manager or in a bundle? Someone is still packaging my software and potentially breaking it or making changes to it that I never intended.

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