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[David C. Rankin]

On 09/12/2010 09:44 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Hey David,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion; when it comes to learning more about how to
> do more with and get more out of the Arch environment, I'm all ears.
> I'm keeping this message here for future reference when I might need
> to maintain several machines under an Arch repo.  This is cool indeed.
>

Thanks,

	Between home and office, I have 10-12 Arch boxes now. (I think I only have 3 
suse boxes left). Finding a way to eliminate 300M downloads was a priority. With 
Arch, it was easier than I expected. (of course I needed help from the list to 
figure that out ;-) So I'm glad to help. After 1.5 years with Arch and even 
going through the pacman tar.gz to tar.xz changes, there are probably only 10-20 
packages that I have had to manually move manually. (verses over 10,000+ that 
have passed through /var/cache/pacman/pkg)

	I do really full installs of Arch with many desktops (kde3, kde4, iceWM, 
fluxbox, openbox WindowMaker, Gnome, enlightenment e16 and e17) and full 
openOffice and compilation tools, etc.. and total packages per box run from 
~2200 to ~2800 (for full-server installs). A simple way to manage updates 
between boxes over the LAN w/o having to re-download over the Internet is worth 
it's weight in gold. Especially at the office where 'business internet 
bandwidth' cost is ~ 5x the residential cost. (no wonder the US is losing its 
competitive edge).

	Anyway, glad I could help with the idea. Put it in your hip pocket for when you 
have multiple boxes. This simple little setup works like a champ.

	Also, as a final tip, if you don't currently use 'basket notepads' to keep your 
Arch/Linux notes squirreled away in. Give it a look. Even if you don't use kde3 
or kde4, it's worth loading the runtime and installing basket notepads. (I'm 
running fluxbox right now and basket works just fine) It's like a flexible 
second brain for any type of notes/sounds/colors/images/etc.. (I try to limit it 
to text notes just to minimize the size) Here is a quick screenshot of some of 
what I use basket for to give you an idea of what it is and what you can do with it:

http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/img/misc/basket-example.jpg

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