OE-core today has three different package managers, the well-known formats deb and rpm is supported as well as ipkg that is good for embedded devices.
When building and having a good cache hit, a significant amount of time is spent in the phase of generating a rootfs, which is really about the performance of the package manager. To save build time and also get a package manager that is suitanle for use on targets where flash memory is a concern, support for apk is suggested. However, it might or might not be what's wanted for OE-core since it increases the test matrix. Therefore I will refactor the package management code to allow a layer to add a new package manager without editing the meta layer. This refactor will be divided into multiple patch series to be easier to review, this first one with a single patch.
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