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marwanhawari / stew

🥘 An independent package manager for compiled binaries.
MIT License
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Allow for remembered preference between gnu and musl #53

Open gdevenyi opened 1 month ago

gdevenyi commented 1 month ago

Often projects offer both a gnu(libc) and musl binary. I would always prefer the musl binary. I'd like to be able to "add" that as a component of the filtering (see #52 for other filterint improvements)

ristomatti commented 3 weeks ago

I'm stuck with Ubuntu 20.04 from lazyness. Due to it's old GLIB version, I also have to install the MUSL variant increasingly often. Sadly, with some packages the MUSL variant is significantly slower (e.g. bootandy/dust). After I noticed this, I've made the habit of first trying the GNU version, then go with MUSL if it doesn't run.

Ideally I'd prefer a binary package manager that would somehow be able to do the trial/error cycle automatically. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: