[pacman-dev] PacTrac was: Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/3/27, Christos Nouskas <nouskas at gmail.com>:
> Damir Perisa wrote:
>  > i have a no-optical-drive laptop (non-macs are not able to boot from
>  > firewire cdroms) and usually i prepare a image to put on a
>  > memory-stick to boot from [1]. since this setting (no cdrom) are
>  > getting more common and having a live-linux-system on a usb-key is
>  > getting interesting i'm wondering if we should provide also a
>  > partition image[2] for such use?
>
>
>  I've been using FaunOS (http://www.faunos.com/) for a couple of months
>  now, and my opinion can only be described as excellent. It's a live
>  archlinux system focused on booting from detachable usb media, fits in a
>  1GB stick, does a wonderful job in hardware detection (I tested it in 3
>  different machines), saves all changes back to the usb stick, suspends to
>  usb and it's FAAAAAST! Wherever I can't take my arch-laptop, I take my
>  usb stick!

Hm, it has an interesting frontend to pacman - PacTrac.
I especially like the dependency tree:
http://www.faunos.com/images/ver-0.5.4-stable/pactrac-install.png

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)