I don't have experience with Arch, so please help me to answer: 1. Let's check the off-site first: "Currently we have official packages optimized for the i686 and x86-64 architectures" Hm.. Can I recompile it with optimization which I need for _my_ cpu? Let's say for laptop, with memory savings? My current flags CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4m -pipe -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse" Gentoo/FreeBSD users would just set it in /etc/make.conf and emerge world :) 2. Can I have all packages (or some packages only) with/without some modules, like, for example, I don't need cups, arts, oss? Gentoo user just modifies make.config file again: USE="hal quicktime flac tiff mng jpeg2k exif dvb matroska x264 bash-completion nsplugin kdehiddenvisibility logrotate acpi mmx sse sse2 theora wifi aiglx -branding -kerberos -arts -oss -gstreamer -dvdr -esd -gtk -ldap -cups -gnome" FreeBSD user would need to type "make config" for each package. 3. Can I have a mixed of stable/not stable packages which also uses stable/not stable libraries? 4. wiki, Criticism: Perhaps the most common criticism of GNU arch is that it is difficult to learn, even for users who have experience with other SCM systems. In particular, GNU arch has a large number of commands, which can be intimidating for new users and some design elements arguably too strongly enforce Lord's taste in version control practice Gentoo: it's almost one command every time: "emerge" 5. And, for the last, let's check wiki again:
"As of 2008, GNU arch is being maintained, but it is not under active development.[1]" Sorry to say, but it looks like your favorite distro is dead for now :( 2008/9/14 Ray Rashif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Today Gentoo is the only choose on a desktop for ex-BSD user." > > I'm not trying to preach here, but that's a fallacy. Arch resembles (or at > least "feels" and works like) BSD more than Gentoo does. But of course, Arch > doesn't give you commercial support nor the hardness (let's not call it > stability) of a server. PKGBUILDs actually look sane while ebuilds have > functions for nothing. If you're still distro-hopping, you may want to try > it out if you were once a religious BSD or Slackware user (: > _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
