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Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"
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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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A good objective critic about Arch Linux:
http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/co...ve_the_gentoo/
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AUR is a poor substitute for ports.
pacman is fine, but what does it provide that pkg_add doesn't? |
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1) Downloading and Booting /bsd.rd to do an update 2) sysmerge (recently in and out of /bsd.rd) 3) pkg_add -ui with a single command. Last edited by shep; 17th September 2011 at 03:59 AM. Reason: restated for clarity |
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I appreciate a separation of the base system from userland, although I suppose things like oss and the kernel can be blacklisted from automatic updating on Arch.
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