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b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

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the wonders of pacman - portable?

Having set up such a nice kde environment today, I decided I no longer needed my gnome install.

So it was with some trepidation I looked through my history and had a look at what I had installed to set up gnome. Put them all together and then did:

pacman -Rcs gnome gnome-extra gnome-system-monitor alacarte gnome-system-tools gdesklets avant-window-navigator gdm-themes

Looking at the list of things it wanted to remove, the only thing it wanted to remove that I had installed before any of it was exaile. Still, with a list of 144 packages, it's a wonder it didn't tear into my xfce-install to remove packages there. Simply the best package manager around.

I am wondering if it would be possible to port it to other systems like debian or suse (imagine suse running with this - yum, uh I mean delightful)? If so has anyone ever tried this on their box?

ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

Registered: 2006-11-20

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Re: the wonders of pacman - portable?

with some work I suppose it can be done(that's why abs has been removed from the pacman package), but I've haven't tried it

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alex_anthony

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-09-25

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Re: the wonders of pacman - portable?

Wouldn't that basically be a fully installed arch system, with some guis added?
i was wondering about something similar too...

bslagowski

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Registered: 2008-02-23

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Re: the wonders of pacman - portable?

Wouldn't that basically be a fully installed arch system, with some guis added?
i was wondering about something similar too...

It would be pointing to Suse repositories, which means you'd be getting Suse packages. I think Suse devs apply some patches and whatnot to their packages, which isn't done in Arch. It's also not as cutting edge if I recall correctly. The biggest differences would be in the underlying system, too ... or at least I'd assume. I've never used Suse, but I doubt it has the nice clean KISS approach that Arch takes. No easy to modify rc.conf file.

Last edited by bslagowski (2008-05-02 17:22:23)

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: the wonders of pacman - portable?

Frugalware uses pacman.
To use pacman on another, already established distro would be more work than it is worth. To force-code SUSE to use pacman  would basically entail ripping the entire distro apart and setting up an entirely new package infrastructure, including package format, repos, etc. One would be more inclined to include pacman in a LFS system. But then, you'd end up with something very much like Arch anyways.
Package management systems have become so integral to their distros that use them that porting one system to another distro is probably a waste of time.

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ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

Registered: 2006-11-20

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Re: the wonders of pacman - portable?

but it would be interesting as an experiment....
adding a task to my future checklist...

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lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: the wonders of pacman - portable?

cactus wrote something about using pacman on FreeBSD... somewhere.

LTSmash

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From: Aguascalientes - Mexico

Registered: 2008-01-02

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Re: the wonders of pacman - portable?

Did you forget about pacman.static?

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