New package manager

[wysiwyg]

Security should always be a top focus with projects today.  We live in a different time when scammers and malicious people are everywhere and can do a lot of harm due to the amount of "things" being moved into the digital sphere.  It used to just be a countries government that they had to worry about, but that changed decades ago.

I wish there were more effort with security in TC, but it is a volunteer OS and as a result there are some things that fall short as a result.  I do have another project that would help keep packages more up-to-date, but I doubt it will get implemented.  I'll try to get it added to the repo anyways in the coming weeks...

Speaking of the repo, I've been trying to get pax into the RPi repo's, but the powers that be are preventing it due to "more feedback needed."  I've tried to get clarification for days, but get nothing.  I don't understand why this package is coming under this scrutiny.  It's also non-nonsensical because they are limited the amount of people that could potentially provide feedback.  Plus this is script so it works across all platforms and CPU architectures so it can be obtained from one and applied to any.  For anyone that is using the RPi versions of TC and would like to try pax, simply execute these commands at a prompt:

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cd
wget http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/pax.tcz
wget http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/pax.tcz.dep
wget http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/pax.tcz.md5.txt
tce-load -i ./pax.tcz

A quick point about capitalism.  It is simply a method of operation for economies, just like communism is another one.  Capitalism is not responsible for planned obsolesce in products.  That falls on the company that manufactures the products.  That same company could operate identically under any economic method.  This is like saying that because I take my body temperature with my armpit vs under my tongue, I got sick.  One has nothing to do with the other.

[nick65go]

in the past, economist Milton Friedman was arguing that the interests of shareholders should be placed above those of consumers and other stakeholders. Now ephemeral Trump politics versus his "EU friends"+ neighborhoods, etc. So please, let agree to disagree about how this late stage capitalism is influencing hardware / software development & cooperation world-wide. If communism is/was bad it does not mean capitalism is the best, it is just that humans had limited imagination to organize the society -- because poor choose of their leaders.
I will stop here, to not deviate from the main topic - new package-manager for tinycore.

[wysiwyg]

I wasn't arguing one was better than the other.  I was simply saying that capitalism is not responsible for a company making planned obsolesce in their products, and that it could do that under any type of economy - capitalism, communism, socialism, etc.

But I do agree, that a discussion among those things is definitely off topic.