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Major Overhaul: OpenWrt Adopts Alpine's APK as New Package Manager (linuxiac.com)
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[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago

I've never seen it used outside of OpwnWRT. I assumed they made it specifically for it.

[-] eutampieri@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

There's some usage in reMarkable: https://toltec-dev.org/

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

They version hasn't changed since 2011 if that tells you something.

Opkg is available for buildroot and some other embedded frameworks

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