He says it was unexpected but it's been being talked about on the GitHub for quite some time now. It was really just a matter of when they decided to do it.

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago

It was about time, opkg is the worst package manager ever.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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 4 points 8 hours ago

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