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by Tiksi
4087 days ago
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>had to dig through the documentation and set up a compile environment Make sure to check the AUR first, I've found that 90% of the time, someone else also needed that feature, and built a package for it in the AUR. For example nginx: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&C=0&SeB=nd&K=nginx&o... Also I've found PKGBUILDs very simple to tweak if you need something extra. If you do start using the AUR, I recommend getting yaourt and letting it take care of that for you. I rarely use pacman directly, as yaourt takes the same flags and works for the arch repos as well as the AUR, plus it allows you to search for packages by omitting -S. Personally I'm not a huge fan of Gentoo, I used it on my desktop years ago and ended up breaking things weekly when portage got cranky. Currently I manage a few thousand gentoo servers, and find it tedious and frustrating at the best of times. Clients refuse to upgrade for too long, so upgrades generally mean a reinstall. And as customizable as it is, if you wanna do something outside portage, everything will inevitably break. |
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