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It was about time, opkg is the worst package manager ever.
I had never heard of opkg. I looked it up:
opkg: Fork of ipkg lightweight package management intended for use on embedded Linux devices;
ipkg: A dpkg-inspired, very lightweight system targeted at storage-constrained Linux systems such as embedded devices and handheld computers. Used on HP’s webOS;
Wikipedia has no dedicated pages for either of them. I guess they’re quite niche.
I’ve never seen it used outside of OpwnWRT. I assumed they made it specifically for it.
He says it was unexpected but it’s been being talked about on the GitHub for quite some time now. It was really just a matter of when they decided to do it.
