A great difference between Arch Linux and Slackware distributions?

Didier Spaier · 04-12-2018, 05:04 AM

I expect that Slackware version won't have issues with eMMC.

But about Arch, you could give a go to its derivative Manjaro, which is very easy to install and use.

ruario · 04-12-2018, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Darth Vader

I was there, I seen that.

Seriously speaking, I followed the ARCH development since its inception, when it was just an obscure idea of "Slackware with deps and more efficient build system".

I'd still love to find some link where this is documented. The stuff on the Arch wiki, old historical pieces on the forums and all quotes I can find from Judd Vinet mention only Crux as an inspiration and that Arch was built from scratch. No mention of Slackware at all.

Are you sure you aren't talking about Frugalware, which was based on Slackware initially but used pacman from Arch as its package manager?

Didier Spaier · 04-12-2018, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Darth Vader

BTW, would be really nice if Slackware would adopt the ARCH's BUILDPKG. It is a script made in bash, and its usage results in much less verbose build scripts.

OK, probably it should be adapted to generate Slackware packages and... to strip the deps support.

http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/sli...urce/slkbuild/

http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/sli...rch-1slint.txz

https://github.com/gapan/slkbuild

Preferably use it with fakeroot.

It already makes Slackware package and doesn't have dependencies support as it's just a build tool.

In Slint we use SLKBUILDs as SlackBuilds.

ruario · 04-12-2018, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by solarfields

SalixOS does something like that. I am fine with SlackBuilds. They do the job and they are used to build the system, itself.

https://github.com/gapan/slkbuild

You can install and use it with Slackware directly if you want. I have in the past

Interesting side note. It contains an old version of my "fmakepkg() function"

EDIT: Didier Spaier beat me to it, as always! :P

Darth Vader · 04-12-2018, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/sli...urce/slkbuild/

http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/sli...rch-1slint.txz

https://github.com/gapan/slkbuild

Preferably use it with fakeroot.

It already makes Slackware package and doesn't have dependencies support as it's just a build tool.

In Slint we use SLKBUILDs as SlackBuilds.

Nice job! Well, this time you really make me curious about Slint, my friend!

How I missed that while messing with it?

orbea · 04-12-2018, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

But about Arch, you could give a go to its derivative Manjaro, which is very easy to install and use.

I once used manjaro after a less than informed suggestion from a friend on my laptop. After about a week or two I got frustrated in that its plastic wrap interfered with several arch features and to see if I could I debranded it from manjaro into a working arch system including changing to the arch mirror. Besides being surprised it actually worked I also noticed my system was at least twice as responsive as it was with manjaro's plastic wrapping installed.

I grew to dislike arch because keeping up with all the package updates as well as fixing everything arch PKGBUILD maintainers have done wrong turned out to be a full time job, but its still much better than manjaro.

I'd of course suggest another OS like alpine (Or Slackware) instead which has some similarities as to arch or debian, but they seem to have a much more sane approach.