<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Jay Ashworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com" target="_blank">jra@baylink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> From: "George Galt" <<a href="mailto:george.galt@gmail.com">george.galt@gmail.com</a>><br>
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> I use Arch for several things, but not currently for mythtv (no reason<br>
> other than I'm simply used to Fedora). Arch does **NOT** use RPM files.<br>
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</div>Pacman isn't based on Arch?<br>
<br>
Then it was some other third-party distro I was working with a few years<br>
back that was RPM based.<br>
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> I'd recommend Arch, though it can take a while to get a system up and<br>
> running. If you truly are looking to stay in the RPM world, try Fedora<br>
> or CentOS.<br>
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</div>Alas, I can't use CentOS, because -- in what I think is a flagrant<br>
violation of the spirit of the GPL -- I am told that the major maintainers<br>
of XFS won't talk to me if I do: because "CentOS is taking money of of<br>
their mouths" (because they are employed by Red Hat).<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jay:<br><br>I guess I'm not entirely clear on what you are looking for. Why are you focused on the package management system? Each packaging format -- RPM, DEB, or Arch's tar.xz format -- has its own peculiarities, strengths and weaknesses. I would probably focus more on what you are looking to get out of the distro in toto. Arch is a wonderful distro, but you do have to keep an eye on things and cannot just blindly update. The Arch maintainers assume you are paying attention and understand what's going on. Having said that, I get immense satisfaction out of my Arch systems. I am always learning something new from Arch, and the systems themselves seem much snappier than my Fedora-based systems. Fedora is easier to maintain, however.<br>
<br>I'd figure out what you want out of your system and go from there rather than worry about the package manager. If it's simply a matter of being used to one form of syntax, here is a good resource for translating the commands you are used to: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta</a><br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">George<br></div></div>