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

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=cccc&do_Search=Go

> # exim4

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=exim&maintainer=&last_update=&flagged=&limit=50

> # filelight

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=filelight&maintainer=&last_update=&flagged=&limit=50

> #  global
>
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