On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Barius Drubeck <[email protected]> wrote:
> Check this one out Daniel. It comes close to what you describe. I > wouldn't call it highly experimental though. Besides the constant > stream of package updates to follow upstream releases, I find it runs > rather stably and I very seldom have issues with the updates. > > https://www.archlinux.org/about/ > > "... Development focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance.... > ... Arch strives to stay bleeding edge, and typically offers the latest > stable versions of most software.... > ... Arch strives to keep its packages as close to the original upstream > software as possible. Patches are applied only when necessary to > ensure an application compiles and runs correctly with the other > packages installed on an up-to-date Arch system...." > That does sound fairly close to my vision of UnFrobbed GNU/Linux (as I've dubbed it) - except that I would usually prefer to just avoid packaging instead of patching where possible. e.g. I've unfortunately had to build a patched version of mozjs-17.0.0 because of polkit's dependency on it; but so far I've gotten by without having to package openjade, and if possible I'd prefer to keep it that way and drop documentation depending on openjade where needed, rather than keeping openjade on life support. I've recently gotten it to a point where it's able to boot a bare KDE Plasma desktop (minus breeze-plymouth, plus konsole and Firefox - except for some reason Firefox is calling itself "Nightly"). Right now the biggest issue I have is the brokenness of flex-2.6.2. Plus for some reason, after configuring the kernel with an Expect script allmoddefconfig.exp selecting "M" wherever possible (except where the prompt mentions something like "experimental" or "dangerous") and defaults otherwise, that kernel won't boot with the dracut initrd; but the same kernel version built with a configuration closer to what I had on LFS works fine and can boot into my LVM logical volume. So, as you say, a distribution with minimal patches, and minimal changes from the default configuration, does seem very usable. -- Daniel
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