On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 09:18:50AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
I'm worried about all this too. I have an Atom at home, so moving back to Gentoo is not an option. I have some programs made to be compiled against dietlibc, which does not support *BSD, so this is not an option either. I took a look at Slackware, but I'm not enthusiastic about using old packages, and I was put off by the install method. Yes, Arch's method is the easiest and cleanest, specially this variant: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fast_Arch_Install_from_existing_Linux_S...
I have many customizations, and a rolling release seems essential to me. So, what to do?
I *shall not* use UDEV/Poetterix.
I understand the developers' predicament: what should they do when the KISS principle is in a collision course with upstream trends? I don't have a solution, but I fear that this course will end up by killing Arch. The rc.conf problem is just a symptom...
You can try aptosid, or linux mint debian edition.