On Sun, 07 Feb 2016, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 06:02:34AM +0100, Ivan wrote:
Hypothetically, if Arch Linux was to adopt an alternative init, it's a process that does not happen overnight. Through time, solutions will surface. I'm not a magic lamp genie that has all the answers.
Then you have to ask yourself, what defines a distribution. If you are going to bring in ck, patch polkit, gnome, kde, xfce, etc, and introduce customizations to lots of other packages, isn't it easier to start from gentoo or alpine and maintain pacman for those distros? I am asking because you are going to duplicate a fair share of official repos...
Well, for starters, Arch isn't just about pacman. I get the feeling you think it is. For me, the "killer" features of Arch are the AUR and its huge, excellent community. I could just run off and start a new distro, but this is not the point. I realize, and I've talked about it in one of the previous emails where I discussed the way packages could/should be built.