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There's literally nothing special about arch or pacman. It's just like any other package manager with newer packages.
by RandomlyGen 10y ago
There's literally nothing special about arch or pacman. It's just like any other package manager with newer packages.
- striking 10y agoYou're right. It's just that the people who manage packages for those distros are actually sane. I can't believe people are still on kernel 4.4, or nodejs 0.10, or whatever. Although there is something special about the PKGBUILD ports system. Here's how a well-behaved open source package is built: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/calibre https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/.... And here's how Arch Linux's kernel is built: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/linux https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P... It's pretty fantastic. And it means that if a package isn't available in the repos or on the AUR, you can package it yourself in less than an hour.