I'm posting from a pure Arch installation right now, and while most of the main system packages are binaries, most of my user apps come from AUR - compiled from source. So, in the context of user-installed packages (PPM) it is definitely source-based.Q5sys wrote:Arch isnt a source based Distro. Where did you hear that it was?
On the first page of this thread, puppyluvr makes it clear that having pacman running on Puppy is one of his highest aims here, so that isn't a separate conversation. It is, in fact, the main issue.Q5sys wrote:Anyway moving along... As for PPM over Pacman. Yes I consider pacman to be superior to PPM, but I doubt pacman will ever be accepted as mainline puppy... That is an entire separate conversation, so I wont derail the thread by putting it here.
Why make a crippled version of something that already exists? Should we not rather improve Arch Pup by making it a real Woof-based Puppy - add to it rather than take away?puppyluvr wrote:What makes it an Archpup? Really.. PACMAN...