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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 13:49:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Buildroot] package management
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On 2011-05-14, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 13 May 2011 21:14:00 -0500
> Xianghua Xiao <xiaoxianghua@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> will buildroot have opkg sometime soon?
>
> Soon, quite certainly not. Someday, maybe. But there's a lot of work to
> be done at the package infrastructure level to make this possible. It
> is not as simple as one might initially think to add this kind of
> features.

I'm curious about this.  I'm using ipkg and it works fine.  Opkg seems
to be based on (and very similar to) ipkg.  What is different about
opkg that makes it difficult?

-- 
Grant