Re:Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"
by cpeterso on Friday September 16, 2011 @06:51PM
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In what way does Arch have a shallower mental model than Debian? Or pacman superior to apt-get? I'm not trolling. Debian is a pretty vanilla Linux and has a huge package repository.
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Re:Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"
by pavpanchekha on Friday September 16, 2011 @10:32PM
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Consider the complexities of APT: package substitutions, virtual packages, provides, requires, recommends, suggests, replacements and patches as pinning and... There's just more complexity involved. Compare the SysV init system, or systemd, or upstart, to the BSD init system that Arch uses. Now, I'm not saying that Arch is better --- something like Systemd has many more features than what it replaces, and in lots of ways it is better. But it is indeed a more complex system.