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Discussion on: Install any package with ZPKG

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Hey! I actually never did look into that solutions well enough to have too strong opinions. What I like about ZPKG, is that you don't have to learn so much new. So if you have any reproducible way to install any software in any linux distribution, that is already enough to create an ZPKG package. For example

$ zpkg add myprog --from ubuntu:focal -x ./installme.sh
$ zpkg package myprog myprog.zpkg  # then you can distribute the myprog.zpkg file.

So I'd say the unique selling point for ZPKG is simplicity and relying on what you already know.