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Part II: Building a Linux distribution from scratch (a new package manager)
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i've always been in awe of people who do this; it goes well beyond linux from scratch and they'll never get rewarded for doing it... it's purely a labor of love.
this made my day; thank you! speaking for myself, it certainly is something I quite enjoy :D
HEAVY emphasis on the words "labor of love" ... should be getting paid for this and i know for a fact that people who do this professionally make around $200k a year for doing it becuase i worked with them for up until a couple weeks ago at old-silicon.
gosh, if only! at the present, I just see this project as a means for me to explore building a distro not based on any other, but I could imagine struggling to find the time to individually maintain each package in future... (unless there's other maintainers too, which might happen if this project ends up going anywhere); still a long a way to go though, I suppose :p
i used to be one of those maintainers. it was my job to build server and container images so i had to spend a lot of time with the company's internal distro maintainers and it always blew me away how much work they had to do.