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Old 16th September 2011
shep shep is offline
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The rolling release model, a consequence of the pacman package manager, at first glance seems to be a setup for periodic system breakage but in practice it rarely happens.

I had thoughts that pacman could be made to work with the BSD's, particularly OpenBSD current, as it encourages the use of binary packages. Arch linux also has a system of 'build scripts' that users can submit for software that is not in the official repositories, which also works well.

Last edited by shep; 16th September 2011 at 08:19 PM. Reason: missed a comma
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