Arch Linux

synthead

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From: Seattle

Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,319

A perk I love about Arch

Say I wanted to play neverball one day.  I'll install it and play it for a few hours.  Then, a couple weeks later, I'll remove it in an effort to clear a bunch of disk space for something.  A year later, I'll think - boy, neverball was fun, so I install it again.  Walla - all of my high scores and game progress is still there!  The way pacman handles the user's ~/.xxx config files is great, I don't even need to worry about losing anything.  And with a one-character flag, I can remove them if I so please.

I know it's obvious, but I couldn't help but mention my appreciation for such a great package manager after doing a few -Rs'es the other day

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funkyou

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2006-03-19

Posts: 848

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Re: A perk I love about Arch

Its not pacman. Pacman doesnt do anything in your $HOME

Its more like that: $USER installs game. $USER plays game. $GAME creates config (and/or highscores) in $HOME. $USER removes $GAME. Config is still there because <insert first line of this post here>

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want a modular and tweaked KDE for arch? try kdemod

pitseleh

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Registered: 2008-03-14

Posts: 5

Re: A perk I love about Arch

Unix convention > others.

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: A perk I love about Arch

Unix convention > others.

Dunno about that.

synthead

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From: Seattle

Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,319

Re: A perk I love about Arch

Oh.  Well, I think we need to build a space helicopter.

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peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 936

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Re: A perk I love about Arch

$ cd /var/abs/local/space-helicopter
$ less PKGBUILD
$ makepkg