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.
I had never heard of opkg. I looked it up:
Wikipedia has no dedicated pages for either of them. I guess they’re quite niche.
I’ve never seen it used outside of OpwnWRT. I assumed they made it specifically for it.
There’s some usage in reMarkable: https://toltec-dev.org/
They version hasn’t changed since 2011 if that tells you something.
Opkg is available for buildroot and some other embedded frameworks