On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:48 PM, John Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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