Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Sep 2011 00:19 UTC
"Many Linux distributions have taken the path of easy GUI-based installation, in order to appeal to a broader mix of users. But not Arch Linux, which emphasises simplicity of technical complexity over general usability. Richard Hillesley explains."
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RE: Pity they don't do the same with their package manager
by Elv13 on Sat 17th Sep 2011 04:23
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RE[2]: Pity they don't do the same with their package manager
by lucas_maximus on Sat 17th Sep 2011 05:08
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Portage is quite good IMO. I think there was a distro that was using NetBSD's pkgsrc ... but I forget it's name.
My favourite package tools are OpenBSD's ... I find they very simple to use. Ports system works flawlessly to.
I am mainly like Redhat based stuff since I used to look after a server room of CENTOS servers. So I don't mind YUM ... I am sure some people hate it.
Edited 2011-09-17 05:12 UTC
RE[2]: Pity they don't do the same with their package manager
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Sat 17th Sep 2011 14:53
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Portage is good, its the packages that are created for portage that suck. Compile directives are often changed from one minor version of a package to another without any explanation or warning. You have to be pretty careful emerging a new version of a package. Which, can be pretty painstakingly difficult when a ton of dependances are attached.
RE[2]: Pity they don't do the same with their package manager
by gelendir on Tue 20th Sep 2011 16:46
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RE[2]: Pity they don't do the same with their package manager
by Zbigniew on Wed 21st Sep 2011 23:08
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RE: Pity they don't do the same with their package manager
by RaisedFist on Sat 17th Sep 2011 05:49
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so you come and post a video older than one year... things have changed and that was fixed.... pacman is one of the best package managers I've ever worked with.. and AUR works very well if you use one of the community built scripts (like packer or yaourt).
# pacman -Si gtk-qt-engine
Repository : extra
Name : gtk-qt-engine
Version : 1.1-2
URL : http://code.google.com/p/gtk-qt-engine/
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : libbonoboui kdelibs
RE[2]: Pity they don't do the same with their package manager
by lucas_maximus on Sat 17th Sep 2011 06:03
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RE: Pity they don't do the same with their package manager
by eldarion on Mon 19th Sep 2011 10:22
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As you can see here http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/gparted/, gparted is NOT required by any package. That was probably a bug. The youtube link is from 27 de Fev de 2010!!? You really are desperate.
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GParted as a dependency of GTK-QT engine!!