Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr...
by RandomlyGen on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:29AM
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There's literally nothing special about arch or pacman. It's just like any other package manager with newer packages.
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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr...
by striking on Monday September 26, 2016 @10:50AM
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You'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/.... And here's how Arch Linux's kernel is built: 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.