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+# Pakfire - The IPFire package management system #
+# Copyright (C) 2011 Pakfire development team #
+# #
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify #
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+# (at your option) any later version. #
+# #
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, #
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+
+Pakfire is the package management system of the IPFire (http://www.ipfire.org)
+firewall distribution.
+
+It is as well the buildsystem that is used to create the distribution.
+
+Development goals have been:
+
+ * To be very fast
+ As system administration and package development is a daily job and needs
+ to be done very frequently, it needs to be fast and reliable.
+ Pakfire is trying to reach this goal by having a very light package format
+ and a very fast dependency solver that is using the SAT algorithm
+ originally developed by SuSE.
+
+ * One error should not break the whole distribution
+ Recently, if one or more packages had a build error, there was no way to
+ skip that. Pakfire 3 divides the whole distribution into lots of little
+ packages, which are versioned. So if one packages does not build, you
+ can just use the older version and do what you were doing. The error
+ can be fixed later.
+
+ * Multiple architectures and distributions
+ The buildsystem should be able to work on other distributions as well, so
+ the developers do not need to set up a specific development system. You
+ can now use every common distribution like Fedora, install Pakfire on it
+ and start with your work. Additionally, pakfire is able to build ix86
+ architectures on an x64_86 machine.
+
+ * Support multiple repositories
+ Pakfire should be able to support multiple repositories. Which can be
+ a testing repository, unstable, stable or a repository for development
+ of a new feature.
+
+In the end, pakfire turned out to be exactly what the IPFire developers wanted.
+It is fast and easy to use, you can start development after only one minute
+of installation of the software. No more waiting for the compiler to finish
+compiling the whole distribution.
+
+ - The Pakfire development team
+
+ Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
+ Arne Fitzenreiter <arne.fitzenreiter@ipfire.org>
+ Christian Schmidt <christian.schmidt@ipfire.org>
+ Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org>
+
+Please report all bugs to: http://redmine.ipfire.org/projects/pakfire3