arch-openrc
A few howtos on how to migrate to openrc in Arch (by leo-arch)
pacfree
A simple pacman wrapper written in Bash and aimed to make pacman free-software aware (by leo-arch)
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| 5 | 5 | |
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| 1.8 | 0.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | almost 2 years ago | |
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| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
arch-openrc
Posts with mentions or reviews of arch-openrc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-17.
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OpenRC migration without changing Arch Branding
It's doable. Check https://github.com/leo-arch/arch-openrc.
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How do I install Arch w/ OpenRC/S6?
If interested, visit https://github.com/leo-arch/arch-openrc for my own personal howtos on how to perform the migration.
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How to change init system?
You can take a look at my homemade howtos on how to perform the migration (specially openrc_migration_from_systemd): https://github.com/leo-arch/arch-openrc
pacfree
Posts with mentions or reviews of pacfree.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-17.
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How do I install Arch w/ OpenRC/S6?
As to the systemd dependencies issue, I wrote a pacman wrapper that allows you to specify repositories on a per package basis using a simple rules file: ruled packages, in the form REPO/PKG, are always installed/upgraded from REPO. Not perfect, but works.
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Can you actually replace systemd with OpenRC in vanilla Arch?
The problem with using Artix repos is that most systemd-free packages are named exactly as the systemd-version of Arch packages, and since you want to keep Arch repos on top (otherwise you will soon or later migrate to Artix), you need to find a way to install OpenRC and systemd-free packages from Artix repos, and everything else from Arch's. As a workaround I wrote a pacman wrapper (pacfree) that allows you to install packages based on rules: install this package from here, and that from there. As a side note, it can also scan your system for non-free-software based on Parabola's blacklists. You can take a look at the wrapper here.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing arch-openrc and pacfree you can also consider the following projects:
kernel-modules-hook - Keeps your Arch Linux fully functional after a kernel upgrade
TermuxArch - You can use setupTermuxArch.bash 📲 to install Arch Linux in Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows. https://sdrausty.github.io/TermuxArch/docs/install