[ale] question about Arch Linux (was: strange keyboard problem)

[James Sumners]

I cannot put into words how much I dislike Gentoo. That alone should
tell you my opinion of that statement. But, there is one area that
could be misconstrued as Gentoo-like. Oddball, extremely bleeding
edge, packages are usually found in a repository called AUR (Arch User
Repository). This repository is very similar in nature to BSD's ports
system; which in turn is what Gentoo is based on. That is, every
"package" in the AUR is really a file that tells the pacman package
manager where to download the source from, what it depends on, and how
to build it. I rarely need a package from the AUR.

Load up Arch in a virtual machine (vmware, qemu, whatever) and play
around with it.

On Jan 11, 2008 2:23 PM, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> <snipped>
> ...I've really come to like the way Arch
> > Linux's system works. Particularly for desktop systems. I'm not sure
> > if I would use it over Debian on a server, but I intend to load Arch
> > Linux on my MythTV box when I build it.
> >
>
> my (limited) understanding of Arch is that it is akin to Gentoo.  it
> that the case?



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