OS considerations with regard to Package management

Question

I'm doing research to decide which technology I should use for a web development project.

One of the considerations is package management. I'll probably end up using NPM or bower or something.

Are particular operating systems (eg: centos vs windows) better suited to handling package management?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '15 at 02:35

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This belongs to superuser or serverfault.Anyways

pacman: packages contain everything related to them. no install/uninstall scripts embedded

debian: packages have a dozen kinds of scripts. they have signatures. and do only one thing/contain one part of a program

rpm: there is no actual central repository, no signature, some install scripts. tad bit messy

ebuild/aur/...: You shouldn't even know these names unless you know exactly what you're doing.

tar.*: you're on your own.

Edit: oh, uh, uh. ouch. It was NPM, not RPM. if you think this is unrelated just say so, I'll delete it.

answered Sep 17 '15 at 02:35

Behrooz

not unrelated actually – sav Sep 17 '15 at 02:38
I'm going to need a variety of package managers here. I don't want to end up in package management hell – sav Sep 17 '15 at 02:40
You trying to decide how to install packages on the server or the client machine? – Behrooz Sep 17 '15 at 02:41
both server and client. – sav Sep 17 '15 at 02:43
In my little experience you should go with static linking and/or shipping your own libraries if the application is proprietary. otherwise distribution maintainers will take care of it for you. – Behrooz Sep 17 '15 at 02:44

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