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Superior documentation and AUR. You can find almost anything in AUR, including all the proprietary crap, and install it all with one command. It's also very eas
by scaladev 6y ago
Superior documentation and AUR. You can find almost anything in AUR, including all the proprietary crap, and install it all with one command. It's also very easy to write a PKGBUILD and upload it to AUR if you don't find what you need, because the package format is so much simpler.
Here are two specific examples which other distros might struggle with:
repackaging a tarball to a proper system package which is tracked by the package manager
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=dotnet-core-bin https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=dotne...
building a proper system package from the source (with one command! no `configure; make; make install` lunacy):
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=sway-git https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=sway-...
- heavyset_go 6y ago> Superior documentation and AUR. You can find almost anything in AUR, including all the proprietary crap, and install it all with one command. It's also very easy to write a PKGBUILD and upload it to AUR if you don't find what you need, because the package format is so much simpler. I'm a Debian fan, but these two points are very true. Arch documentation is great, and writing PKGBUILD files is easier than packaging for distribution via Apt. I don't even use Arch, but I still release for it because it's easy.