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SigLevel = Never
Server = http://apricityos.com/apricity-core/
This instructs the package manager (pacman) to load system packages over an unencrypted connection and disables all signature checks.
Source:
https://github.com/agajews/ApricityOS/blob/master/build/pacm...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Package_signing#...
[apricity-core] SigLevel = Never Server = http://apricityos.com/apricity-core/ This instructs the package manager (pacman) to load system packages over an unencrypted connection and disables all signature checks. Source: https://github.com/agajews/ApricityOS/blob/master/build/pacm... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Package_signing#...
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That means I'll have to rewrite all my (Arch) packages for Nix in order for that to work, right? How does it deal with install scripts (inside upstream packages that you have no control over) that install stuff imperatively?
packages are namespaced in a directory for each package/version, like this: /nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0kjfwrjmg1vfhh54ad73z-firefox-33.1/ if a package is "installed" in an environment (it could be global, user local or temporary), its files are sym-linked in the "original" position (e.g. /usr/bin/firefox etc etc)
This has several consequences. It means binaries distributed with the expectation of libraries being in their original position (e.g. /usr/lib/libc.so) don't work as is. It also means scripts depending on the presence of /usr/bin/bash are broken (which happen far too often).
I love NixOS, but that is one of the biggest annoyance I have with the system.
Are users reliant on Apricity for OS updates, or could it be connected to whatever update mechanism Arch uses in the event Apricity becomes obsolete?
They use the default archlinux mirrors and add one for the extra packages
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I guess it's oriented at people who isn't used to Linux and want a pretty OS to play with, or people too lazy to do it themselves :p
Those people are not going to be happy with Arch.
Strange that they include Pushbullet, and advertise it so prominently, which is not a free service anymore and was the subject of a huge controversy when they cut features.
It's indeed strange and definitely against the spirit. There's an excellent open source project which does this and much more: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
My favorite things about KDE Connect:
1) shared clipboard between mobile and PC
2) "send file to phone" - context menu in Dolphin / "send file to PC" in Android to quickly exchange single files
3) browse the whole Android file system (and copy/delete/edit files) directly from your file manager in Linux
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Yes and this is great. I have felt Ubuntu to be way too bloated ( last time I checked it had many python scripts running by default on startup ) and Debian is hard to use on the desktop ( "stable" is too slow, "testing" is too unstable ). Arch will make a better foundation distro IMO.
I've found debian and ubuntu to be the best QA'd distros available. Followed by Fedora. After trying Arch and running into too many irritating bugs that I didn't have the patience to fix I gave up on it. Plus this didn't give me a good impression of the community's professionalism either: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Manjaro-Devs-Fix-Embarrassing...
That said, I don't feel the idea of the Arch community revolves around professionalism; it is really an amateur thing, in the positive sense.
Strange that they include Pushbullet, and advertise it so prominently, which is not a free service anymore and was the subject of a huge controversy when they cut features.
It's indeed strange and definitely against the spirit. There's an excellent open source project which does this and much more: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
This sure looks nice. My problem with nice looking Linux is that I becomes too limited and I get forced into habits that I don't like. Now all I use is bspwm, no status bars or anything, a lot of times I miss having something good looking though. But I became happier when I just let it go, it's easy to go down that road of constant tweaking.