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Distribution: Slackware/Salix while testing others
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Jeremy, perhaps Salix could be listed with Slackware since it is backwards compatible and can act as an extra repo for Slackware. Quite a few of use both as well.
Running yaourt as a pacman frontend gives me AUR package updates and standard package updates together. Over the past 3 - 4 years I've never had a dependency issue. pacman is sensible enough to deal with dependencies and even to tell me when, after an update, some packages installed as dependencies are no longer required, and I can laugh at all those silly incantations that the ubuntu crowd put up with to add several separate repositories for one or two packages each.
Add to that the fact that the Arch wiki is second to none.
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