B B wrote:
What kind of distro do you consider Crux is?
Upgrade. Each release of CRUX, accompanied by a new installation ISO, provides a new build toolchain, and can be update-installed on existing systems.
New releases are not that common (approx. 1/year), so I tend to consider crux more a rolling-release than an upgrade distro. "Upgrading" crux can be as easy as sed -i 's/<old-version>/<new-version>/' /etc/ports/* ports -u prt-get sysup So you're only adding one step (updating remote folder) to your typical system updates.
So, by upgrading regularly, any problem will be on my own? No surprises on official packages not matching between each other?
That's what I tend to believe. I had a bunch of issues with my fresh install, but the more you use it, the less likely it will break.
From time to time, you'll need to use `revdep(1)` in order to rebuild incorrectly linked softwares, but regarding official packages, you shouldn't have any bad surprise.
Is there an easy way to install packages in another directory, like Kwort has?
None that I'm aware of. I use another package manager for that.
I see that Crux based distros are not mentioned on wiki. Do you know more than those mentioned on distrowatch? - Kwort, Thinstation and Nutyx
There is archlinux! Not based, but inspired by crux. For the others, I've never tried them, but I discussed with the Nutyx team some times ago. Their package manager is based off crux's, but has been greatly changed along the way (binary packages support for example). They also had a different concept regarding package management, to allow finer selection, ala Alpine where you have all the -dev, -doc packages. But with much much more granularity. I don't know if they managed to do it in the end. ~z3bra