Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

[Thomas Mueller]

Sorry to be sending this again, but I forgot to update the subject line the first time.

from Baho Utot:

> I don't use HEAD.  I use Quartlery with synth.  It is just I expect a little
> more than amature hour.  I was on Archlinux for 10 years and they are very
> bleeding edge.  Almost No breakage in ten years. The only reason I left Linux
> was systemd.  After landing in FreeBSD the experence has been terrible at
> best, I have been a user for more than 5 years hoping that things would get
> better after seeing all the work promised not getting done.  I am done with
> FreeBSD and I am going to my own scratch built Linux.  I already have all my
> raspberry pi on my own linux version and now I am working on moving my
> desktops.  Should be complete by the end of the year.

I never got started with Archlinux because of their mailing lists' severe moderation policy.  I became an infant mortality.

I asked how and if it was possible to rebuild the Archlinux system from source as is done with FreeBSD and NetBSD, but that message was rejected by moderator, explanation being that I could find the answer in one minute, or was it ten minutes, from the wiki.  I still haven't found it.  I unsubscribed about two days later.

I suppose you're aware of Linux From Scratch and Cross Linux From Scratch (trac.clfs.org)?

Two distros you could try are Voidlinux (voidlinux.eu) and Gentoo (www.gentoo.org).

I have git-cloned their source/package trees.

I would like to get back to Linux but am not ready to give up on FreeBSD.

Tom