2012/7/23 Rodrigo Rivas <rodrigorivascosta@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:35 PM, 1126 > <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> For you this change might be a reason to switch to Fedora, you say. I >> mean, seriously? How is it all handled in Fedora then? Well, I don't >> now, actually. >> > > Fedora is RedHat, and that's where systemd came to live, so you can guess... > I wrote the first message before I successfully done a setup with a minimal rc.conf > >> - It's a rolling release distro: You only have to carefully do pacman >./> -Syu to keep your system up-to-date. I started using Linux with Ubuntu >> and first I really looked forward to a new release, I mean new >> features, new artwork and all that stuff. But distupgrade nearly >> always failed and so I re-installed my system every six months. This >> is not good! With ArchLinux I can spent way more time just using my >> system instead of playing admin. >> > > Well said. I came from Ubuntu also, and I expected that in Arch some things > would break because of it being rolling and more bleeding-edge than Ubuntu. For the record, I'm using arch since end of 2008 / beginning of 2009. It is the first time I was very upset by a change from developer team. > I accepted that, but as it happened, it breaks _less_ than Ubuntu. > > And, actually, about the rc.conf split, I couldn't care less. One file, > three files, doesn't make a difference to me. As long as they are text > files, and not binary ones, like some other mainstream systems, all is good. > Not 3, but 6 more files. I do agree you don't have to modify them everyday, but it is - in a way - harder to set u than a single one. > Just my 0.02 € > -- > Regards. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies@xxxxxxxxx
