[ale] Distro question...

[John Wells]

As an alternative, a company call Specifix up here in the NC have
developed an interesting system called Conary that allows an admin to pull
from different types of repositories across the net, among other things. 
It also adds versioning capabilities, which I find very appealing.

http://www.specifix.com/technology/
http://wiki.specifixinc.com/

The company itself is made up of a bunch of ex-Red Hat guys...including
one of the intial authors of RPM.

And Quote:
"Conary is a distributed software management system for Linux
distributions. It replaces traditional package management solutions (such
as RPM and dpkg) with one designed to enable loose collaboration across
the Internet. It enables sets of distributed and loosely connected
repositories to define the components which are installed on a Linux
system. Rather then having a full distribution come from a single vendor,
it allows administrators and developers to branch a distribution, keeping
the pieces which fit their environment while grabbing components from
other repositories across the Internet."