Intel's Clear Linux distribution has made some packaging improvements to help better suit the needs of its users.

For use cases like wanting to install an app/library but not desiring other apps/libraries as part of one of their package "bundles" and in working toward being able to speed up package updates, Clear Linux is rolling out project-level bundles.

Intel engineer William Douglas of their Clear Linux team [1]announced the work on Friday night:

"With release 43580, the team has completed the transition to making all the content in our rpm repos available via swupd bundle-add.

This change will allow things like swupd bundle-add for development packages directly that might not have been previously exposed in a devpkg bundle or let you select subsets of bundles that previously weren’t available stand-alone.

It also should eventually allow us to do more work on speeding up updates but the initial update to 43580 will probably take a little longer than normal.

I expect there might be a few rough edges where some content that wasn’t exposed before standalone isn’t working quite right so as always please open any issues you find on github."

The latest builds of this rolling-release, Intel-performance-optimized Linux distribution can be downloaded at [2]ClearLinux.org .



[1] https://community.clearlinux.org/t/clear-linux-project-level-bundles/10493

[2] https://www.clearlinux.org/