So I have a longish list of nifty packages useful for doing the sort of programming we do here...
So as part of our "Set up a new developers box" process we install all of them. Alas, it wasn't nearly as simple as replacing apt-get install with pacman --sync to translate to Arch. Major differences... * Ubuntu splits things into library, library-dev and libary-doc. Arch doesn't. It's just library. * Ubuntu maintains old versions of autotools, flex, python, tcl, .... for the sound reason that not every program out there can be updated. Arch doesn't. It's whatever latest and you probably have d/load and build anything ancient yourself. (Which can be a swine if it depends on ancient build tools etc.) * Arch list didn't seem to have # cccc # exim4 # filelight # global -- John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [email protected] New Zealand ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. =======================================================================
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