[artix-general] migrating from arch and some related questions...

[Javier]

On 3/19/20 9:46 AM, Christos Nouskas wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:54:23 -0600
> Javier via artix-general <artix-general at artixlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> ...
> 
> The "hard" part is to get rid of the systemd octopus. Once in openrc, it's
> trivial to switch to s6 or runit by just replacing the openrc packages with s6
> ones. It can even be scripted, but it's always better to maintain control of
> the process:
> # for p in $(pacman -Qq | grep \\\-openrc); do sudo pacman -Rdd $p; pacman -S
> $(echo $p | sed s/openrc/s6/); done
> 
> There's also a script to fu^Wremove systemd and convert Arch to Artix
> (openrc), take a backup and enjoy the perks of science:
> http://tiny.cc/fucktheskullofsystemd
> 
>> ...
> 
> All of [core] is covered by [system], hence the former MUST be disabled. Most
> of [extra] is in [world], we keep [extra] for packages we haven't yet
> imported or are clean of systemd. In [galaxy] go most systemd-infected
> [community] packages. So, it's recommended to keep [extra] and [community],
> but below Artix repos. AUR is also at your disposal as in every Arch
> derivative.
> 
>> ...
> 
> In Artix, elogind takes care of such tasks and it should work without any
> further configuration. Most if not all exceptions are covered in our wiki;
> for the rest, the Arch wiki applies.
>  
>> Is sndio fully supported when possible
> 
> Every {front,back}end under the sun works in Artix.
> 
>> ...
> 
> You can use any network manager (NM, connman, wicd, dhcp*, static) you like.
> OpenRC for example uses netifrc for static configs.
> 
>> ..
> 
> I'm not a heavy cgroups user, but to date I haven't found a
> VM/docker/container implementation that doesn't work in my setups. I use
> OpenRC though.

Thanks a lot for your answers.  I'll add a reply to my original post, to ask also about mirrors, but you did actually cover most of what I originally asked.  Thanks again !

-- 
Javier

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