On Wednesday 11 November 2009 19:51:26 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: <SNIP> > > > yes, it is easier to just go ~x86. Yes, it is very very very hard to go > > back - easier to reinstall > > Isn't there a lot more work to do to keep it up to date? Seems to me > testing packages are going to change more often and as not every one > of them will eventually become stable. Isn't it just a lot more > electrons burned to keep things emerge -DuN @world clean?
Yes, ~arch is higher-touch than arch so ~arch users will emerge lots more stuff. Is it worth it? That depends on the reason why the box is there and only it's admin can decide. And everyone's reasoning will be different. I run ~arch everything because 1. I'm a geek 2. I like to fiddle 3. I can have as much bandwidth as I want 4. I can test/use new softwares locally before rolling it out to my production machines 5. I can warn others using more stable OSes about deep changes coming down the tubes (X for instance. RHEL users are in for a big surprise sometime in the next 6 months to 5 years...) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
