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_System#Another_method:_Installing_from_an_existing_Linux_with_an_Arch_installation_image > > 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.
