Hello! Today I was (again) looking into putting my /etc under dvcs and (again) stumbled upon etckeeper which has support for Frugalware's pacman-g2, but not for the pacman which I use on Archlinux.
I'm using Archlinux (x86_64 for ~5yrs and before that I was > 5yrs on Gentoo, mostly using ~arch64. Last spring I had short excursion to FreeBSD, but soon returned to Archlinux due to some missing packages not working on FreeBSD (cinelerra, vuescan...). I also did install Ubuntu on few desktops (not mine), but could never grok it. Moreover, we consider Arch as kind of 'sweet-spot' between Gentoo and Ubuntu having most of the packages available as binaries and allowing one to easily build custom packages from the source using PKGBUILD mechanism. I also like Arch's 'rolling release' nature which makes updating from one 'version' to another very easy. Otoh, after already spending quite some times with computers, I also prefer to have stable desktop and not to be always forced to do some tweaking and doing admin work. My current DE is Xfce, use raid-1 setup (2x1TB disks) and everything is under lvm2 (/boot, swap, / & /home) and I like/use simple syslinux boot loader which boot my OS from GPT disks. Based on the above requirements, I wonder if Frugalware might be viable option for me? I did read FAQ, noticed there are no AUR and I'm not into using git (using bzr-git & hg-git when required), so wonder if it would be still easy-enough to contribute missing packages (e.g. Frugal lacks support for D language - dmd, gdc, ldc compilers) and/or to provide local repo for installing/maintaining them? Arch's wiki ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions#Frugalware) page mentions these points: - Arch is command-line oriented. - Frugalware has adopted Arch's pacman as its package manager, but uses bzipped tarballs. In contrast, Arch uses xz compressed (lzma) tarballs, for the purpose of expedience of installation. - Frugalware does not support the JFS filesystem by default. - Both Arch and Frugalware are promoted as i686 optimized. - Arch can be installed as a minimal environment first and later expanded with pacman according to the user's choices and needs. Frugalware is installed from a DVD, with default software choices and desktop environment chosen for the user already. - Frugalware has a scheduled release cycle. Again, Arch is more focused on simplicity, minimalism, code-correctness and bleeding edge packages within a rolling-release model. and in my estimation only the last point matters, but I need some more light on it? (Tried to install frugalware-current under virtualbox, but it looks that installer does not like GPT-labelled disk and wonder if it supports syslinux? Will try to install again later...) Sincerely, Gour p.s. I'm excusing myself if this is the wrong place to ask, but 'users' list seems to be not active since April last year.... -- One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge. http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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